So far, Donald Trump’s picks for top Cabinet positions have largely been in alignment with his bellicose campaign rhetoric.One can generally describe at least four of the five nominees that were announced this weekend as a bunch of “white angry men”.These selections send a worryi

Much will be said and written about Donald Trump’s phenomenal rise to power and America, along with the rest of the world, will watch as the maverick president begins to implement his controversial agenda, which remains a mystery to many. But Trump’s historic victory last we

Libya has not been much in the news lately, but that does not mean that all is good. Five years after Western powers intervened militarily in that country — at the height of the so-called Arab Spring — resulting in the collapse of the regime of autocratic leader Muammar Qadh

Despite stiff resistance, Iraqi forces appear to be inching closer to the outskirts of besieged Mosul, two weeks after a major offensive to liberate the city from Daesh had begun.But fiercer battles are expected as the offensive moves into the second phase and into the heart of t

Finally, two years after its dramatic fall and following months of preparation marred by squabbles, inner divisions and foreign pressures, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al Abadi on Monday gave the go-ahead for an extensive military operation to retake Mosul, Daesh’s last major stro

Russia is playing a dangerous game in Syria and it is raising the stakes there so hastily that pundits are now talking about a sharp dip, and heightened tension, in US-Russian ties, the kind of which we have not seen since the Cold War era. Some have even warned that the ing

At 70, one would think the United Nations’ conflict resolution record would be credible enough to provide hope for millions of people caught in complex conflicts in many parts of the world.

Sunday’s gunning down of Nahed Hattar, a controversial leftist political activist and journalist, in front of a courthouse in Amman has shocked Jordanians. It was the first assassination of someone on the basis of his political beliefs and daring opinions in the modern histo

Syria’s truce has unravelled as many observers had predicted. Lack of confidence between the US and Russia has marred a last-minute agreement by the foreign secretaries of the two countries from the start.It was an agreement that lacked transparency and took many parties by