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The most important parameter showing that there has been a successful end to the transitional process in Syria will come when the country holds sound, transparent, and just elections.  Turkey ...

In 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved, the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan declared its independence, but the friendship with Russia remained. One year later, in 1992, an Agreement of Friendship, ...

There are months to go before Iranians choose a new president, but the Islamic regime already appears to be preparing the ground for a preferred candidate. A controversial election-reform bill ...

How the president can seize back the initiative on foreign policy. In foreign affairs, the central challenge now facing President Barack Obama is how to regain some of the ground ...

Morsi, with his newly earned momentum, intervened in the tutelary powers of the judiciary in the aftermath of Gaza. “A disaster in the history of the Egyptian judiciary.” “Respect for ...

The assassination of Irish-catholic President Kennedy, fifty years ago, is the biggest and cruellest provocation of all time, for it came in a time when everyone had a television and ...

U.S. President Barack Obama has made history as a pioneer in many ways. He is the first black president, first black senator and even the first smoking president in many ...

Now that the dust has settled in Gaza, permit me a brief comment on the way the conflict was covered here in the United States.   I normally leave media commentary ...

Lying, cynicism and hypocrisy. In Gaza, Israel's criminal aggression has its abominable lie in terms of self-defense. The truth is that ,like all other crimes committed by U.S. imperialism and ...

The Arab spring skirted around the central fire in the Middle East: Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel's actions have wheeled it straight back onto centre stage. Israel's decision to assassinate the Hamas ...