Mid East Daily

Now that President Bush is on his way out and the US has been left red-faced by the Iraqi invasion; scapegoats have to be found. And whom better than an erstwhile Iraqi named Rafid Ahmed Alwan aka Curveball. TimesOnline goes all out to prove the...

After the United States of America occupied Iraq, it allied with the leaders of the Shiite Iraqis who form the majority of the Iraqi population, to help them form government. Despite of belonging to the minority Sunni community, the former Iraqi...

The metaphorical darkness is all over Gaza and the 1.5 million residents there are being plunged into deeper darkness still. The translation of the metaphorical into the real could begin in no time and apprehension is already running wild among the...

The US military strategy in Iraq has once more been put to the sword. The fiction between the US officials and the Iraqi authorities is going to increase even more in the wake of another US raid all gone wrong. The center of the controversy this...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is at a crossroad. The bitter Israeli-Palestinian dispute has for long been dragging on endlessly. One after another peace talks have been held, but everything appears to be stagnated at square one. It is.

Last year's war between Israel and the Lebanese militant outfit Hezbollah had strategic consequences. Both Israel and Hezbollah declared victory but the truth is that the Lebanese armed group had lost much of their ammunition stock and was severely...

This could be the coup of the year. Syria might be one of the sensitive spots in the Middle Eastern region but one would have hardly expected this somewhat small nation to possess nuclear power. But in a world where all nations are vying for more...

Hardly does a day pass without reports of violence and death screaming all around in Iraq. Iraq is trapped in a sectarian violence that is fast spiraling out of control and although the Bush administration is always trying to put up a brave face...

It has long been suggested that Iran is at the centre of the sectarian violence that is currently rippling Iraq apart. Suspicions have always been riffed that Iran has been smuggling arms and ammunitions to Iraq and has been supplying them to the...

The Presidential election in the US in November 2008 will be shaped by the ongoing war in Iraq and the person who will come out on top will be the one who will be able to convince the people that America will not fail the war-ravaged country or put...