On Sunday 28th April, the Iraqi Communications and Media Commission announced the suspension of the operating licenses of nine Iraqi Satellite TV Stations and the closure of the Baghdad Offices of Al Jazeera Arabic. The justification given was that the mainly Sunni stations were inciting hatred and divisions in Iraq....

I wrote an article in the Huffington Post on 13th December 2011 titled "How Many More Syrians have to be killed before Russia and China Condemn the Syrian Regime?" At the time some 5200 pro-democracy protesters had been killed by the Syrian regime. I said rhetorically:
"Does the figure...

A study commissioned by UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay concluded that there had been59,648 deaths in Syria between February 2011 and November 2012, and that figure would now have risen above 60,000. She described the bloodshed as "truly shocking" according to news reports.

Syrian opposition groups had previously estimated...

At long last anti-aircraft weapons are getting through to the rebels. The Free Syrian Army fighters have recently made significant successes on the ground and managed to shoot down five fighter jets including a military helicopter in the space of two days. In less than 24 hours, rebels used surface-to-air...

On the 4th of August 2012 the Free Syrian Army abducted 48 Iranians in Damascus. The Free Syrian Army maintains that the hostages are Revolutionary Guardsmen who are in Syria to aid the Bashar al Assad regime in its bloody 19-month-long crackdown on opponents. Iran maintains that the men are...

Bashar Al Assad must be rubbing his hands with glee. His heavily armed security forces and henchmen are killing the Syrian people right under the noses of the UN observers and the noses and ears of the silent witnesses Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-Moon. The UN and NATO are unwittingly...

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...