The recent attacks on two ships that were then sunk by the Yemen-based Houthi movement in the Red Sea took much of the world by surprise. This is due…

A US-brokered ceasefire has brought a temporary end to the deadliest wave of violence to have hit the southern Syrian city of Sweida in decades. What…

There is no doubt that the violence in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida over recent days represents the most serious test for Syria and its new…

After the downfall of Libya’s long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the nation drifted into a civil war between the Tripoli-based Government of…

Israel’s plan to establish a “concentration camp” for 600,000 Palestinians in southern Gaza causes deep concern in Egypt. If implemented, it would…

It was interesting to hear that Iranian leaders have begun to take a leaf out of other nations’ book by conjuring national heroes of the past in…

In a sign of the deepening friction between the Trump administration and UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) official Francesca Albanese, US Secretary of…

The world’s richest country, Qatar is smaller than the US state of Connecticut, yet this 160km peninsula in the Arabian Gulf punches well above its…

Earlier this month, at a summit in Washington, D.C. attended by five heads of state, US President Donald Trump declared a move “from aid to trade”…