Veteran Mideast Journalist Charles Glass on Syria’s Violence & the Prospect of Military Intervention

The United States and 11 other countries have formally expelled Syrian diplomats following a massacre of more than 100 people…

Colonial threads combine to strangle a sectarian Syria

Twenty-five years ago, I travelled by land through what geographers called Greater Syria to write a book. I began in…

The week of March 20 was supposed to have been Afghanistan’s first without private-security companies on its soil since the…

The April 2012 issue of Harper’s Magazine includes “The Warrior Class,” a feature by Charles Glass on the rise of…

Tim Spicer’s career as a soldier of fortune seemed over by 2001, when he attended a lunch at the Royal…

It started in France in 1894, when a Viennese journalist covered the Paris treason trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. “In…

Review of Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel John Murray, 480 pp, £10.99, September 2011, ISBN…

Review of Patriot of Persia by Christopher de Bellaigue Bodley Head, 310pp, £20

Nigeria buried the remains this week of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who died last November in Britain, in his village of Nweni.…

Aleppo is a town of eminent consequence, and in all ages its fame has flown high. The kings who have…