First-hand account from Syrian vice-president of the efforts, throughout 1987, to improve relations between Syrian and Iraq

Netanyahu's attempt to curb Supreme Court powers and the ensuing backlash by Israelis is a microcosm of the larger picture of Israel's inherent contradictions

How the complex Sainte-Laguë method is used to count votes and why Iraqis say its unfair

Two decades after the US invasion of Iraq, the country's economy is deteriorating on all possible fronts

The statue represents the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees who do not know if they will ever return back to their homeland

The significance doesn't lie in the amount of time that has passed since the invasion, but in the extent of drastic changes that Iraq and the world has witnessed in this period

The following years would be marked by waves of horrific violence and sectarian warfare and, about decade later, another war, this time against the Islamic State (IS)

A review of Farouk's life from his childhood to his forced departure including his political achievements and setbacks

Nostalgia for a fallen regime — despite its cruel ways — is more of an expression of discontent with the present than a desire to return to the past

A detailed account of the aftermath of the US intervention in Iraq and the myriad problems that it produced