The Tunisian government clearly did not learn the lesson delivered in March by Daesh at the Bardo Museum in the country’s capital.The attack by two gunmen left 24 dead, 20 of them tourists on a shore visit from cruise ships.Last Friday’s attack by a lone gunman at the Imperial Ma

The attempts by Druze living in Israel and the occupied Golan to interdict en route to hospital ambulances carrying Syrians wounded across the ceasefire line in battles with Syrian government forces have put the Israeli army in a difficult position.In the first incident, which to

The battle between Kurdish militiamen and Daesh over the strategic Syrian border town of Tel Abyan has been a crucial test for both sides; Daesh is certain to try to regain control.The town, across from the Turkish city of Akcakale, is located on the route from Ain Al Arab (Koban

This week’s parliamentary elections deepened Turkey’s democracy by, at long last, bringing the Kurds, who make up 20 per cent of the population, into the political mainstream.The chief victor in this contest between four parties was the leftist People’s Democratic Party (HDP), ba

When voters in Turkey’s 81 provinces cast their votes in 175,000 ballot boxes in 970 districts in the June 7 parliamentary election, they could decide the fate of democracy in their country.If they give the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) a resounding mandate and up to

The Iraq war has become a fashionable issue in the run-up to the US presidential race, with the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton and the entire range of Republican challengers trying to distance themselves for their support for the disastrous campaign waged by George W.

The fall of the strategic Iraqi city of Ramadi last weekend to Daesh amounts to a decisive blow to the confused and contradictory strategies US, European and Arab powers have adopted towards the conflicts in Iraq and Syria.

The shock results of this past week’s British general election and of the March parliamentary elections in Israel demonstrated that opinion polls cannot be trusted. In both cases, pollsters predicted a close race: in Britain between the incumbent Conservatives and oppositi

This past week two damning reports have been issued about the conduct of Israeli forces in last summer’s 50-day war on Gaza. One, an internal UN report, covered Israeli attacks on seven UNRWA schools that had been identified by the agency as shelters for Palestinians drive