The humiliation of American Marines at the hand of the Iranians, this week, is just another example of what many Sunni Arabs suffer in Iraq and Syria.The arrogance of power exhibited by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards is not confined to the 10 US marines whose boats unintentiona

One million Israeli settlers in the West Bank is the current target of the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu, as reported by the Palestinian press.The expansion of existing settlements and the construction of new ones has been a priority of successive Cabinets, Likud and L

Jerusalem this Christmas lost its glory as a city of peace and an abode for serenity and spiritual fulfilment.The Israeli practices against its Arab residents changed the city into a potential powder keg that might engulf the whole of Palestine.Christmas carols at the Church of t

No amount of Vienna meetings or Geneva communiqués can stop the war in Syria unless the root causes of the conflict are addressed.A new round of negotiations took place in New York this week, but it did not tackle the conundrum of questions haunting average Syrian citizens:

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet.

A United Syrian Republic, rather than a Syrian Arab Republic, will be the new name of post-war Syria.Ethnic lines are part of the new master plan being implemented by the 44 anti-Assad militias operating on the Syrian territory.The Kurds, 16 per cent of the population,

The shooting of a Russian warplane by Turkey galvanised public opinion attention in our region. Some financial analysts compared it to the events, 100 years ago, of the summer of 1914, when Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the city of Sarajevo, which led to Wor

Demonising Islam and stereotyping 5 million French Muslims will not bring Paris its peace.The eight terrorists who launched the attacks in the French capital were not the product of Daesh in Raqqa, they arrived there already ripe for recruitment as a result of French society whic

The Vienna II talks that are going to be attended by 17 foreign ministers are intended to come up with a roadmap to end the civil war in Syria.They will offer the Iranians a second opportunity to display their prowess, as scheme masters who developed the first chess game in histo