What was the greatest failure of 2007? President Bush’s "surge" in Iraq? The decline in the value of the US dollar? Subprime mortgages? No. The greatest failure of 2007 was

After a two-year investigation into the killings of up to 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps has decided that none of the Marines involved in the incident will

The IOF troops on Saturday withdrew from the West Bank city of Nablus after wreaking havoc for almost three days that ended with destroying a number of buildings in the

The sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the dirt. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptured.

It apparently never occurred to anyone in our leading human rights organisations or the Western media that the same moral and legal standards ought be applied to the behaviour of

A policeman in the southern Egyptian governorate of Monoufia embarked on a very outlandish action. He tortured a mentally-handicapped 16-years old boy to extend the Egyptian’s notoriously systematic torture against

I’m writing a book on the origins of religious violence and my thesis is that there has been far more religiously motivated violence in the Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—than

For that reason, we ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul for other than murder or spreading corruption in the land, it is as if he

The chairman of the preparatory committee of the Palestinian national conference, Talal Naji, has announced that the conference would be held in the Syrian capital on 23/1/2008

A female suicide bomber has detonated explosives at a checkpoint manned by neighbourhood patrol volunteers in the capital of Diyala province, killing 10 people and wounding eight, Iraqi police say.