Twenty-five years ago Iraq invaded Kuwait following a dispute over Kuwait’s refusal to curb oil exports to raise the price to $20 a barrel and allegations that the emirate was slant drilling into Iraq’s Rumaila oil field.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hysterical reaction to the deal reached between Iran and the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany (P5+1) was particularly disturbing because opposition parties in what the liberal Israeli daily Haaretz called the “Zionis

Iranians danced in the streets on Tuesday night to celebrate the deal between the six world powers and Tehran over their country’s nuclear programme. Iranians have good reason to cheer.

The life of Yusif Sayigh, Arab economist and political activist, spanned a turbulent era in the history of this region.Born in Palestine in 1916 to a Palestinian mother and a Syrian father, and raised in two very different villages in both countries, Yusif witnessed the dramatic

The Tunisian government clearly did not learn the lesson delivered in March by Daesh at the Bardo Museum in the country’s capital.The attack by two gunmen left 24 dead, 20 of them tourists on a shore visit from cruise ships.Last Friday’s attack by a lone gunman at the Imperial Ma

The attempts by Druze living in Israel and the occupied Golan to interdict en route to hospital ambulances carrying Syrians wounded across the ceasefire line in battles with Syrian government forces have put the Israeli army in a difficult position.In the first incident, which to

The battle between Kurdish militiamen and Daesh over the strategic Syrian border town of Tel Abyan has been a crucial test for both sides; Daesh is certain to try to regain control.The town, across from the Turkish city of Akcakale, is located on the route from Ain Al Arab (Koban

This week’s parliamentary elections deepened Turkey’s democracy by, at long last, bringing the Kurds, who make up 20 per cent of the population, into the political mainstream.The chief victor in this contest between four parties was the leftist People’s Democratic Party (HDP), ba

When voters in Turkey’s 81 provinces cast their votes in 175,000 ballot boxes in 970 districts in the June 7 parliamentary election, they could decide the fate of democracy in their country.If they give the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) a resounding mandate and up to