[caption id="attachment_55234696" align="alignnone" width="620"] Fidel Castro in 1994[/caption]Fifty years ago this month, the world held its breath as it contemplated nuclear armageddon over the…

[caption id="attachment_55234653" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iranian soldier wearing a mask against chemical weapons used by Saddam Hussein.[/caption]Iraq’s use of chemical weapons during its…

[caption id="attachment_55234500" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney[/caption]Opening his speech on foreign policy at the Virginia Military Institute,…

[caption id="attachment_55234492" align="alignnone" width="545"] Abdel Karim Qassem with delegates to an Afro–Asian solidarity meeting in Baghdad.[/caption] On 8 February 1963, the Ba’ath Party of…

[caption id="attachment_55234401" align="alignnone" width="500"] Gamal Abdel Nasser[/caption]Following the overthrow of the corrupt Egyptian monarchy in 1952, a power struggle emerged between the…

[caption id="attachment_55234371" align="alignnone" width="620"] (MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]Exactly a year after the breakout of the Syrian uprising, Al-Arabiya TV did something…

[caption id="attachment_55234360" align="alignnone" width="620"] Sabri Nakhnoukh was ordered detained for prosecution after ten hours of police interrogation in Alexandria.[/caption] When the police…

[caption id="attachment_55234346" align="alignnone" width="620"] Members of Mexico's Caravan for Peace call for an end to the Drug War at Freedom Plaza in Washington, 2011[/caption] While in…

[caption id="attachment_55234332" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish soldiers arrive to the court building in Silivri on September 21, 2012 (Reuters)[/caption]When a Turkish court last Friday…

[caption id="attachment_55234256" align="alignnone" width="620"] Edward McMillan-Scott in Cairo [/caption]Historical perspective is a funny thing. In common with other countries, the British…