In a failed state, the government’s priorities are totally separate from those of the people. The US can’t afford health care or a bailout for jobless homeowners, but it can

Because of the Iraq calamity, other elements of the neocon vision of remaking the Middle East were put on hold.

No objective observer can claim that Netanyahu’s partial freeze is anything but a cynical manoeuvre.

Whilst America has been absorbed by the Afghan election imbroglio, a less-noticed event slid into place in the Middle East.

Tom Friedman is quite right in his New York Times op-ed piece of November 29th where he exclaims to Muslims: “Whenever something like Fort Hood happens you say, ‘This is

President Obama’s failure to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks has severely diminished his administration’s hopes of achieving a Two-State Solution. Persuading Israel and the Palestinians to reach an accord lay at

Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the

At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are

"The Guardian" -- The talk in Israel, explicit and open – including in the country's leading daily, Haaretz, last week – is about a war in the coming spring or

President Obama in EgyptPresident Obama is under pressure to relaunch the political reform agenda in the Middle East, but low U.S. credibility and the region’s political stagnation leave little hope