In watching the calamitous events of the Syrian civil war unfold before my very eyes, I am starkly reminded of the horrors of the Bosnian War which claimed an estimated 110,000 lives, according to the UN Prosecutor's Office at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. While it is...
The Syrian uprising-turned-civil war is a human tragedy of epic proportions. A preliminary statistical analysis carried out by the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has just come up with a list of 59,648 victims it has good reason to believe...
What has become of the Arab-Israeli peace process? Recent years have seen little to no progress, though several opportunities have presented themselves. The Annapolis Summit in 2007 formally established the two-state solution, to which both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
In the midst of the repressive Syrian regime’s all-out war against rebels and revolutionaries, the strategic Arab state of Lebanon has struggled to maintain its sovereignty and avoid entanglement in neighbouring Syria’s internal crises. Lebanon has constantly lived in the...
Echoing the tone of many opinion pieces in the Western media, I too was initially confused by China’s outspoken support of the violent Syrian regime, both in the UN and through their press. The brutal year-long crackdown on Arab Spring protestors in the country has had left...
In the discourse of international politics, it is rarely warranted to label a situation a kerfuffle. Syria is definitely one such kerfuffle. The international community has failed to broker a solution to what has now become more than a year-long conflict in which the...
No two countries mirror their unfounded hatred for one another more publicly, outrageously, and frankly, entertainingly, than Iran and Israel. Most geopolitical archrivals are at least immediate neighbours, like North and South Korea, Pakistan and India, or even the former...
In recent weeks, tensions between Iran and regional countries in the Middle East have been growing to a feverish pitch as a covert war between Tehran and Western powers seems to be increasingly spilling into the open. With Syria on the precipice of all-out civil war, Tehran is...
After a long and tense summer in the Middle East, the rumour mill continues to spin regarding the prospects of a Palestinian membership bid at the United Nations in September. The Palestinian side estimates that they will be able to lobby approximately 160 member states of...
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