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In October 2001, the United States and its allies fired their first shot in what promised to be a prolonged War on Terror, by launching air attacks on the ancient [...]

IT IS NOT quite 20 years since Pan Am flight 103 exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 270 people on board and on the ground. Libya has since [...]

The question of whether or not the military action currently being taken in Afghanistan is morally justified is one that can never be satisfactorily answered. A person's stance on this [...]

WHILE WESTERN MEDIA and political groups debate the issue of whether or not there is a civil war in Iraq, for millions of Iraqis forced to leave their homes and [...]

SADDAM HUSSEIN, FOUND guilty of crimes against humanity, was hanged amid chaotic and undignified scenes and is now lying buried in his home village of Ouja. The trial itself, hoped [...]

DURING THE COLD WAR, THE ideologies of capitalism and communism clashed on many different fronts. Parades of soldiers, tanks and missiles through the broad streets of Moscow were a formidable [...]

IRAQ'S NEW CONSTITUTION, RATIFIED by referendum last October, is not without its controversy. While it is claimed by its supporters to enshrine the rights of all Iraqis regardless of their [...]

The meeting between Prime Minister Blair and the Libyan president may be viewed as a reward for Gadaff'i's surrendering of his country's weapons of mass destruction programme. Certainly there was [...]

It has been said of Iraq that if the country produced no more than oranges and lemons, the United States would never have declared war on it. The implication being, [...]

In the 19th century, American gun manufacturer Colt produced a .45 millimetre handgun, which became affectionately known as the Peacemaker. An ironic title for a weapon designed to kill, perhaps, [...]

Middle Eastern politics are rarely straightforward. A brief look at some of the personalities involved in sabre rattling against Iraq, and their backgrounds sheds light upon the shadows in which [...]

Issa Suf is the father of a young son. He lives near the area of Salfeet, in north Palestine, where he used to work as a fitness trainer. He is [...]

On 26, October, one of London's most prestigious music venues played host to one of Algeria's biggest stars. Thousands of mostly young North Africans flocked to the Royal Festival Hall, [...]

The Old Testament decrees that at regular intervals, debts should be forgiven and slaves freed. On 2 December, Britain took a giant and pioneering stride forward to end the burden [...]