Secretary of State John Kerry had the unbelievable cheek to express US concern to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, over reports that Moscow is arming the Syrian government and providing advisers to upgrade the performance of the overstretched Syrian army.He apparently told

The 2,000-year-old temple of Bel in the ancient city of Palmyra was largely destroyed by Sunday’s massive explosion in the ruins.

Washington’s myopic right-wing politicians continue to fulminate against the nuclear deal signed by Iran, the US, the UK, France Russia, China and Germany, attacking President Barack Obama and ignoring the other signatories.This kind of behaviour is typical of US Republicans and

Republican front-runner in the race for the party’s nomination for the presidency Donald Trump has trumped his competitors by saying that, if elected, he would not “rip up” the deal with Iran on its nuclear programme but “police that contract so tough they don’t have a chance” to

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al Abadi responded to mass protests against the breakdown of essential services, corruption and misrule by pledging to eliminate senior government posts distributed in accordance with the dysfunctional ethno-sectarian power-sharing model imposed on Ira

The total collapse of all misbegotten US strategies for dealing with the conflict in Syria came last week.

Twenty-five years ago Iraq invaded Kuwait following a dispute over Kuwait’s refusal to curb oil exports to raise the price to $20 a barrel and allegations that the emirate was slant drilling into Iraq’s Rumaila oil field.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hysterical reaction to the deal reached between Iran and the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany (P5+1) was particularly disturbing because opposition parties in what the liberal Israeli daily Haaretz called the “Zionis

Iranians danced in the streets on Tuesday night to celebrate the deal between the six world powers and Tehran over their country’s nuclear programme. Iranians have good reason to cheer.