Nehad Ismail

Kofi Annan's initiative is in trouble. The Syrian regime declared its acceptance of the UN sponsored plan on 27 March 2012. The main requirement of the plan is the pulling back of the Syrian troops from Syrian cities by April 10th and all fighting to stop within 48 hours after...

Frantic diplomatic negotiations are still underway at the UN Security Council to agree a watered-down resolution on Syria that would secure a yes vote from Russia by removing a call for President Bashar al-Assad to step down and dropping direct threats of an arms embargo or new sanctions. The Arab...

No prizes for guessing the right answer. China and Russia are the culprits. China is wavering and may change its stance in the coming weeks. But Moscow is still determined to fight on. It has recently defended the shipment of arms to the Damascus regime which is committing crimes against...

Russia is still refusing to condemn the war crimes committed by the Syrian regime. The Security Council seems impotent to act to stop the massacres perpetrated by Bashar Al Assad's thugs against the pro-democracy protesters. Middle East watchers are warning of civil war and chaos. The Arab League mission has...

I read with interest Dr. Joseph Olmert's article Something Is Happening in Jordan.

The excellent article raised a number of contentious points and I am not going in this piece to analyse every point but would like to clarify a number of issues which Dr. Olmert touched...

King Abdullah II of Jordan has been the first Arab Leader to tell Syria's Assad to step down.
King Abdullah of Jordan advised his old friend Bashar al Assad the tyrant of Syria to quit. He said in a recent BBC interview that in the interest of Syria Bashar...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is publishing on Wednesday a new report revealing advanced Iranian design for a nuclear warhead developed with the help of former Soviet scientists, according to nuclear experts.

The report by the (IAEA) will identify a suspect site where warhead components have been tested. This...

Muammar Gaddafi is dead. The tyrant has been killed at his home town of Sirte when he was overrun by fighters seeking to complete the eight-month uprising, the interim Prime Minister of Libya has announced Thursday 20th October.

Gaddafi died from wounds in his head and legs. It was unclear...

In January 2007 Russia and China vetoed a resolution against the Burmese military junta in Myanmar. In July 2008 both Russia and China rejected sanctions against the Robert Mugabe's odious regime in Zimbabwe. I was not surprised that Russia and China have vetoed a European-backed UN Security Council...

In reply to a question about the impact of 9/11 attacks on organisations like the IRA, I remember saying to a Television Station reporter that "if I was in their shoes, that is the shoes of the IRA bosses, I would look for other work". "The world does not anymore...

On 24th June 2002 at the Rose Garden of the White House, President George W Bush mentioned for the first time the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . Since then this has been the consensus solution that is currently under discussion by the key parties to the conflict. The...

Two Headlines in the Huffington Post World News Section caught my attention on the 14th September and prompted me to write this piece. One was "Russia Keeps Up Support for Assad Regime" and the second was "Syrian Troops Snatch Wounded from Hospitals".
China and Russia are playing a dangerous...

Was Bin Laden a conman with no vision; an idiot without a sound strategy or was he a hero?
Al-Qaeda is too weak to mount a major attack against USA in future. The terror group has been emasculated and is not in a position to carry out...

The US has killed Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, but the Arab Spring has killed Al-Qaeda as a Jihadist movement.

The killing of Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, Al -Qaeda's second-in-command by a CIA controlled drone in Pakistan on August 22nd is another major blow to al-Qaeda's infrastructure and prestige. This is...

In this article I examine the murderous record of the Gaddafi regime and I argue that he must not be allowed to get away with his crimes.

It is clear the war has reached a decisive stage and Gaddafi's regime is to all intents and purposes has finished and his...

President Obama was joined by David Cameron of Britain, Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Angela Merkel of Germany, as well as the EU in demanding that Bashar al Assad must step down.
Obama said the Syrian people's pursuit of democracy was an inspiration that had been met with "ferocious...

Only America can hasten the end of Bashar al Assad's Syrian Regime

Bashar al Assad and his gang must face trial for crimes against humanity.
How many more massacres have to be committed by Bashar al Assad and his gang of five criminals before America takes the lead in...

Al Baath and Al Shabbiha

Every serious analysis of the Syrian situation I read these days does have a reference to the two most dreaded words in Syria "Al Baath and Al Shabbiha". In my view these are the twin evils of Damascus.

Al Baath means in Arabic the...

Muammar Gaddafi Must Not Be allowed to Remain in Libya

Last week William Hague the British Foreign Secretary and his French counterpart Alain Juppe' both suggested that Gaddafi can stay in Libya provided he steps down from power. I argue that this is wrong and can have serious consequences. The...

Most Arab States and Arab media have chosen to remain silent about the brutal crackdown by the Syrian regime against unarmed civilian protesters. The international stance has been disappointing but the shameful Arab silence is baffling. The impotent Arab League had given the green light for the no-fly zone...