Once it was anarchists throwing bombs … little really changes

Twenty years ago, he would have become a militant anarchist, and you’d have found him throwing a bomb in a…

In the Syria we don’t know

A young woman in Damascus produced a smart phone from her handbag and asked, “May I show you something?” The…

The militants of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (Isil) have murdered another western captive, Alan Henning. Henning, like his fellow humanitarian…

Review of John Wayne: The Life and Legend by Scott Eyman Simon & Schuster, pp.512, £25, ISBN: 978439199589

Review of AMERICA’S GREAT GAME The CIA’s secret Arabists and the shaping of the modern Middle East by Hugh Wilford…

A terrible war has been taking place in Syria since 2011, It is a contemporary struggle, but this is a…

Even if Bowe Bergdahl was disillusioned with the Afghan war, he was a casualty, not a coward At dawn on…

The commander is thirty-six years old. A few strands of white in his dark, curly hair make him seem older,…

DAMASCUS, Syria – In 2011, Syrian activists were inspired and believed they were capable of ousting President Bashar Assad. Now,…

Few citizens are more honored than military veterans, and there’s particular reverence for those who defeated the Nazis in World…