In May 2009 within a region of Sri Lanka known as the Vanni, government forces finally routed the rebel secessionist militia known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), drawing to a close the island nation's long civil war, an internecine struggle that had claimed 100,000 lives over 26...

It goes without saying that the outrageous attacks on the US embassy in Libya that killed an American Ambassador and three others this month represent serious crimes that no amount of offence can possibly justify. Yet those who perpetrated the killings in Benghazi (from the looks of things, Jihadi groups...

Recently Richard Silverstein, a prominent US blogger on middle-eastern politics, "leaked" an extraordinary document on his website. It appears to outline a plan for a massive, carefully co-ordinated attack on Iran by the Israeli military, intended to severely damage the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme.

Naturally, this has...

Soon the Great British Olympic moment will be over. The closing ceremony will be held this weekend and this year's Paralympics will be finished by early September. By the turn of the season the magic will finally have faded. The nature of the legacy left in its wake, for London...

On hearing the recent news that PC Simon Harwood was acquitted of the manslaughter of Ian Tomlinson, I experienced a mixture of angry disbelief and weary resignation. A part of me somehow expected this sort of mind-boggling outcome in keeping with so many other high-profile police trials, although another part...

The sickening racism that appears to have been directed at a young black man arrested by police in London, recorded on his mobile phone and published by the Guardian days ago should have rocked the British media. Yet, apart from the latter paper's transient webpage headline and

It has been a little over a week since the ninth anniversary of the Iraq war's launch. Watching the UK news over recent days, it seemed that at this milestone moment, serious mainstream media reflection on a conflict that officially ended only months ago were in short supply.

This,...

Sri Lanka's civil war was one of the most bloody internal conflicts in history. Fought between the Sri Lankan state and the separatist militia known as the "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam" (LTTE), the internecine struggle is estimated have led to 100,000 deaths since its outbreak in 1983.

In Geneva, the current session of the United Nations Human Rights Council is playing host to a fierce diplomatic battle largely overshadowed in the British press by the mounting atrocities in Syria and the deepening crisis in Afghanistan.

At present, an enormous delegation from the government of...