American Sniper illustrates the west’s morality blind spots
Say what you like about the film American Sniper, and people have, you have to admire its clarity. It’s about killing. There is no moral arc; no anguish about whether the killing is necessary or whether those More...
Video: Moroccan king takes casual walk in Tunis
Morocco’s King Mohammad VI, who is on a state visit to the neighboring north African country of Tunisia, was on Monday seen walking dressed in casual clothes on the capital’s Bourgiba street. The street is More...
Ex-Fifa Official Accused Over $5m Qatar Bribe
A former senior Fifa official allegedly paid $5m (£2.98m) in bribes to secure support for Qatar’s successful 2022 World Cup bid. The Sunday Times has claimed Mohamed Bin Hammam, an ex-Fifa executive member More...
Iran hackers use fake Facebook profiles to spy on US and Britain
A cyber intelligence firm has uncovered an elaborate, three-year long, cyber espionage campaign in which Iranian hackers used social media and a fake news site to spy on military and political leaders from countries More...
Is Russia reviving its empire?
A great many experts, observers and pundits are missing the point in their analyses of events in and around Ukraine by making two flawed assumptions. One, that the personal traits and characters of Russian President More...
Rape,Female spy and Prostitution : Assad’s secret weapon
There is an old dictum that says sex is a weapon of war. The Syrian Civil War is ongoing proof of this dictum. Very little is written about sexual and gender politics in Syria. We occasionally hear about the prevalence More...
Kofi Annan: Syrians pay with their lives while regional powers wage proxy wars
The world has let down the people of Syria, leaving tens of thousands to die as neighbouring nations wage proxy wars instead of working to prevent the bloodshed that has engulfed the country for the past three More...
Syria Death Toll Reported to Rise By 10,000 in Less Than 2 Months
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The death toll in the three-year Syrian conflict has risen to about 162,000, an increase of more than 10,000 in less than two months, according to an antigovernment monitoring group that is one More...
1,500 girls under the age of 10 were forcibly married in Iran
More than 1,500 girls under the age of 10 were forcibly married in Iran last year, according to rights campaigners who accused judges in the country of sanctioning child rape. Activists also condemned a law passed More...
British hate preacher managed London strip club
British hate preacher Abu Hamza told his U.S. terror trial Wednesday how he once jointly managed a London strip club in his quest to live a Western, movie-style life. Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, 56, better known in Britain More...