Stories by Ishaan Tharoor
Trump to cease funding the UN agency to provide for Palestinians who were forced from their homes in what is now Israel.
Updated 05 Sep, 2018 09:46am
It seems that Trump and Erdogan are no longer on fist bumping terms.
Updated 05 Aug, 2018 09:09am
Invisible Countries by Joshua Keating examines de facto countries that exist without established borders.
Updated 02 Aug, 2018 10:22am
Trump’s behaviour was that “of a man who wants the alliance to fail”, wrote New York Times columnist David Brooks.
Updated 19 Jul, 2018 09:49am
Little about this World Cup lends itself to a narrow idea of European identity.
Updated 13 Jul, 2018 11:01am
North Korea “does not intend to fully surrender its nuclear stockpile", say intelligence officials.
Updated 03 Jul, 2018 09:25am
Trump reviles the Obama-era pact, arguing it does nothing to check Iran’s missile development.
Published 26 Apr, 2018 11:55am
Syria's messy war is becoming even messier.
Updated 28 Feb, 2018 02:57pm
Trump decried the attack on “innocent and defenceless worshipers” and used the occasion to denounce extremist ideology
Updated 28 Nov, 2017 10:04am
ON Monday, the regional government in Iraqi Kurdistan plans to go ahead with a referendum on independence. Six days...
Published 22 Sep, 2017 06:21am
SPEAKING at an event this week, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn offered some standard condolences on the...
Published 13 Aug, 2017 07:26am
The White House is still struggling to come up with an Afghanistan strategy.
Updated 10 Aug, 2017 09:11am
White House reluctantly certified Iran's compliance with the nuclear deal signed by Obama administration in 2015.
Updated 20 Jul, 2017 08:11am
Martin once likened Trump to Joffrey, a contemptible, sadistic royal who displays lack of experience, poor temperament.
Updated 15 Jul, 2017 02:30pm
FOR many Iraqi Kurds, the time has come. Earlier this month, Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional...
Published 22 Jun, 2017 07:01am
It’s a truism that the world has grown numb to terrorist attacks outside the West. When the militant Islamic State...
Published 03 Jun, 2017 06:59am
AT a time when there’s so much hand-wringing over the crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of corrosive...
Updated 12 May, 2017 06:59am
THE Trump administration has spent a lot of time fulminating over North Korea’s nuclear threat, but its tough...
Updated 04 May, 2017 06:57am
Flynn was known for harbouring an extreme anti-Muslim worldview and for peddling Islamophobic conspiracy theories.
Updated 16 Feb, 2017 10:04am
In 1829, an angry Persian mob killed the Russian ambassador Alexander Griboyedov.
Updated 24 Dec, 2016 10:47am
