The war in Lebanon is only a week old, but it is already obvious that these are just the early stages. It is probably true that Israel has been given
A week into the war, Israel's intransigence and the United States's indulgence make the prospects for peace minimal.
Israel's attacks on Lebanon continued over
Israel's bombardment of Lebanon may be only the prelude to an even wider field of conflict.
The motives and intentions of the Hamas militia in Gaza and the
Much public discussion in Britain in recent weeks has focused on the government's plans to acquire a successor to the Trident nuclear-weapons system. This is clearly a vital
A year since the London bombings of 7 July 2005, the British government remains resolute in its insistence that the country's foreign policy had no connection with the
The determination of Britain's political elite to maintain the country as a nuclear-weapons state is rooted in a half-century of military planning to which the possibility of tactical
The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on 7 June 2006 created the routine expectation among coalition representatives of a decline of al-Qaida influence in Iraq. This reaction was echoed in
In April 2006, the Chinese prime minister Hu Jintao visited Washington and lunched with President Bush. Many observers noted the apparent indignities inflicted on the Chinese leader in the United
The Haditha incident of 19 November 2005, when twenty-four Iraqi civilians appear to have been massacred by a United States marine-corps unit in the immediate aftermath of a bomb attack
George W Bush's hailing of a "turning-point" in Iraq in his speech of 22 May has coincided with more problems for the coalition forces there. The
The formation of a government in Baghdad under prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has been hailed by George W Bush and Tony Blair as a breakthrough. Their reaction leaves out of
On 7 July 2005, four suicide-bombers attacked the London transport system, killing fifty-two people and wounding 700 in a series of coordinated bomb blasts three on underground trains and one
