Trump’s anti-Palestinian agenda will ultimately hurt Israel 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
Trump and Erdogan square up for a fight It seems that Trump and Erdogan are no longer on fist bumping terms. Updated 05 Aug, 2018 09:09am
Trump says borders make a country, but there’s a lot more to it Invisible Countries by Joshua Keating examines de facto countries that exist without established borders. Updated 02 Aug, 2018 10:22am
Is Trump at war with the West? 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
The World Cup is a victory for the immigrant dream Little about this World Cup lends itself to a narrow idea of European identity. Updated 13 Jul, 2018 11:01am
Trump says North Korea ‘no longer a nuclear threat’, US spies disagree North Korea “does not intend to fully surrender its nuclear stockpile", say intelligence officials. Updated 03 Jul, 2018 09:25am
France’s Macron steps up his bid to save the Iran deal Trump reviles the Obama-era pact, arguing it does nothing to check Iran’s missile development. Published 26 Apr, 2018 11:55am
Turkey and Iran face off in a new battle in Syria Syria's messy war is becoming even messier. Updated 28 Feb, 2018 02:57pm
What Trump ought to learn from Egypt’s terror attack Trump decried the attack on “innocent and defenceless worshipers” and used the occasion to denounce extremist ideology Updated 28 Nov, 2017 10:04am
Independence movements in Catalonia and Iraqi Kurdistan face the point of no return 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
Does UK’s Jeremy Corbyn have a Venezuela problem? SPEAKING at an event this week, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn offered some standard condolences on the... Published 13 Aug, 2017 07:26am
Mercenaries aren’t a solution to Afghanistan’s forever war The White House is still struggling to come up with an Afghanistan strategy. Updated 10 Aug, 2017 09:11am
The US and Iran are heading toward crisis White House reluctantly certified Iran's compliance with the nuclear deal signed by Obama administration in 2015. Updated 20 Jul, 2017 08:11am
The inescapable politics of Game of Thrones Martin once likened Trump to Joffrey, a contemptible, sadistic royal who displays lack of experience, poor temperament. Updated 15 Jul, 2017 02:30pm
The quest for an independent Kurdistan enters a new phase FOR many Iraqi Kurds, the time has come. Earlier this month, Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional... Published 22 Jun, 2017 07:01am
The West is indifferent to Afghanistan and Iraq’s world of terror 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
South Korea just showed the world how to do democracy 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
It’s not just North Korea, Trump has a South Korea problem, too 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’s ties to Russia are a problem, but what about his Islamophobia? Flynn was known for harbouring an extreme anti-Muslim worldview and for peddling Islamophobic conspiracy theories. Updated 16 Feb, 2017 10:04am
The murder of a Russian ambassador — in 1829 In 1829, an angry Persian mob killed the Russian ambassador Alexander Griboyedov. Updated 24 Dec, 2016 10:47am
