Some striking developments in Iraq - Will these be favorable for the US? Only time will reveal. Nevertheless, there is some excitement for the fatigued US army, as some tribal insurgents have now decided to fight alongside US army against the...
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Shattering all the plans and dreams of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a Middle East envoy, America yesterday confined his powers to arbitrate peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
Now, Blair will only be restricted to...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown through the selection of his ministers has sent out a clear message that he will deviate from Blair's highly unpopular approach on the Iraq war. The message is that since he was part of the Blair cabinet that...
Tony Blair hasn't yet started working as a peace envoy to the Middle East of the so-called Quartet - the US, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations - in a bid to revive peace talks, and fingers have already started pointing against this...
The shadow of Hamas looms large over West Bank. Fatah fears it. Israel and the US resent it. After Fatah was hounded out of Gaza by Hamas, a tit-for-tat is happening in West Bank. Free kitchens run by Hamas are being attacked. All men with a beard, a...
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has accused the United States of scathing the relations between Iran and Iraq.
He has also charged that agents of America and Israel were behind the Iraqi insurgency, according to a state-run Iranian...
The power struggle between radical Hamas and more centrist Fatah in Palestine is set to prolong. The open support of Israel and the West though is a welcome assurance for the beleaguered President Mahmoud Abbas, yet it has potential to make the...
Here is something for you all - Iran, amid the trepidations of third tougher sanctions, succumbed to the pressure and called in IAEA experts to sooth the prolonged standoff on nuclear enrichment with UN's watchdog.
Thank god! There is at least a...
Volatile Gaza region is looming large with its socio-political upheavals. The worst fears of alienated Hamas falling to Al-Qaeda's help seem true, as the occupier is in urgent need of outside help and help is denied to it by its neighbors and...
Hamas leader and former Palestine prime minister, Ismail Haniya, has indicated his willingness to talk with Fatah leader Abbas. Hamas is totally isolated and faces the grave problem of feeding the populace of Gaza. It realizes that unless it does that,...
Unable to stop the ongoing bloodshed in Iraq, the beleaguered US forces there, are thinking out of box to bolster support for themselves. With the aim of increasing support for itself and pit Iraqi tribes against the Al-Qaeda supported belligerency,...
Slaughter of 180,000 people - fiendish - what should be the punishment for this ? Obviously death. Ali Hassan al- Majid (alias Chemical Ali, Saddam's cousin) and two other officials of Saddam's regime have been sentenced to death by hanging for their...
Yet another journalist has been shot dead in Iraq and the trauma seems to have become perennial.
Zeena Shakir Mahmoud, a 35-year-old Iraqi journalist was shot to death in Mosul on Sunday, according to USA Today.
24 June 2007, the day of her death,...
The ruthless manner in which the Palestinian militia Hamas launched an all out attack on its ruling alliance partner Fatah in Gaza and grabbed power in a bloody fratricidal struggle has sent shock waves across the region. Arab neighbors in the region...
Why did the Fatah lose in Gaza? Why was there no grim hand-to-hand fighting? Why did it surrender so meekly despite the fact that the Americans were giving it money and arms; the Egyptians training the fighters? Ironically the answers to this harks back...
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