The last few months in Iraq have been marked by periods of relative calm, interrupted by brutal suicide attacks mainly directed at government…

[escenic_image id="5513848"]When authors of successful non-fiction books toy with the idea of writing a sequel to a multi-million selling title, they…

[escenic_image id="5513846"]When Dubai World requested a standstill on $60 billion worth of outstanding debt, stock markets were jolted and an entire…

[escenic_image id="5514371"]Christopher Hill, the son of an American diplomat, was born in Paris in 1952.  At a very young age, his family moved to…

[escenic_image id="5514336"] William Cohen is the former Defense Secretary of the Clinton Administration during Clinton’s second term, from 1997 to…

In major western research institutions, many of those who track the situation in Pakistan believe that this country is doomed to fall sooner or later…

Indeed, there is a third party which had not been able to take control of the central authority in Pakistan. But this third party remains an…

Pakistan's tribal region and major cities witnessed a violent series of bloody events last October. These events coincided with the announcement that…

[escenic_image id="5510567"]Discussion of Pakistan’s ability to fight the Taliban successfully has centred on the question of military or civilian…

[escenic_image id="5510636"]For Gulf Arabs, the entry of their centuries-old Persian rival into the elite club of nuclear-armed states would be a…