Media Cover-up: Shielding Israel is a Matter of Policy
The term ‘media bias’ does not do justice to the western corporate media’s relationship with Israel and Palestine. The relationship is, indeed, far more...
Syria: When in Doubt, Just Launch Some Missiles
Last week saw another flurry of American cruise missiles launched at Syrian government installations, with a few fig leaf missiles from Britain and France...
The war in Syria and the Arab Summit
April seems to be a full month for Syria in terms of war, attacks, fragmentation and division. It is also a full month for...
#GreatReturnMarch organisers call for ‘Friday of Rebellious Youth’
The collaboration of youths and organisations that help steer Gaza's Great Return March has declared April 27 to be the "Friday of Rebellious Youth"...
Thousands hold Kurdistan independence referendum rallies #Kurdistan
Thousands of people in the city of Zakho in the northwest of the Kurdistan Region and President Masoud Barzani attended a rally in favor...
Destroying Mosul’s Great Mosque: Islamic State’s symbolic war to the end
Destroying Mosul's Great Mosque: Islamic State's symbolic war to the end
Benjamin Isakhan, Deakin University and Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona, Deakin University
On June 29 2014...
Saudi rift with Qatar exposes growing division in the anti-Iran alliance
Saudi rift with Qatar exposes growing division in the anti-Iran alliance
Mohammed Nuruzzaman, Gulf University for Science and Technology
This is the worst diplomatic crisis in...
ISIS attacks in Tehran could plunge the Middle East into greater...
ISIS attacks in Tehran could plunge the Middle East into greater turmoil
Mohammadbagher Forough, Leiden University
Iran experienced its first major ISIS attack on June 7,...
Nearly 40,000 Syrian children caught in the line of fire in...
An estimated 40,000 children are trapped in extremely dangerous conditions in Raqqa as fighting intensifies in and around the Syrian city.
The United Nations Children's...
Can the One Iraq policy persist?
My focus is on British foreign policy over the last decade during which I have been director of the all-party parliamentary group on the...