Firmly established in Raqqa, northeastern Syria and northern and western Iraq, Daesh feels confident enough to take on allies as well as enemies.It benefited from Ankara’s open-door policy for foreign fighters seeking to join Daesh in Syria and Iraq, and toleration of Daesh agent

The Third Intifada has been around for some time but both Palestinians and Israelis are in denial.This rising has been called the “Lone Wolf Intifada”, an Intifada of individuals frustrated and furious over the continuation of the Israeli occupation, the inability of the Palestin

US President Barack Obama may have scuppered the chances of cooperating with Russia, in particular, and Iran, by association, in the war against Daesh and its affiliates in Syria and Iraq.During his address to the UN General Assembly, Obama stuck to his stance adopted four years

The war in Syria has transformed not only the lives of the country’s 23 million Syrian citizens, but also those of the half-million Palestinians living in that country who are risking perilous journeys to reach Europe.Originally from Haifa, Jamil, 32, his sisters, Lora, 27, and C

Several European Union countries should be ashamed about the way they reacted to the rising refugee crisis caused by the wars in Syria and Iraq.The country that should be most ashamed is Hungary where, following the 1956 Soviet invasion and clampdown on revolutionaries seeking fr

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