Though the indiscriminate violence in Syria and Gaza is becoming indistinguishable, unlike Syria, the west can take...

As the Islamic State has consolidated its hold in Mosul, those who do not share its extreme fundamentalism have been...

Yemen has slipped well down the global agenda—behind Israel-Palestine, Syria and Iraq—but, as security deteriorates,...

The Syrian imbroglio is very difficult, not intractable—and the west cannot continue to throw up its hands in despair.

“Terrorism” has become a formulaic term in political discourse, often deployed as a device sustaining a US informal...

A surge of Tunisian jihadists into Syria tells much about the wider story of violence and politics after the Arab Spring.

The growth of ISIS is hardly violence in a vacuum. Despite the rapid onset of historical amnesia, America must face...

The latest effort by the Israel-aligned US to renegotiate the asymmetric power relationships of the Middle East has...

Presenting “British values” as the antidote to Islamic fundamentalism misunderstands the process of radicalisation...

The US's failure to destroy the remnants of Iraq's chemical weapons stock, along with many others, haunts as ISIS...

Western states have reflexively diagnosed the continuing violence and lawlessness in Mali's fragmented north to the...

As violence in Iraq threatens to overshadow nuclear talks between the US and Iran, we must avoid the tendency to...

Little is clear about the US renewal of drone strikes in Pakistan—except that they won’t be the last.

After two months in the global spotlight, the insurgency in northern Nigeria is fast turning into a national...

Egypt’s ruler, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, has responded to the growing outcry over mob sexual violence against women in...

The remarkable resurgence of Sunni-fundamentalist violence in Iraq has taken the west by surprise, yet it is a...

Clarion calls on social media for action in Africa have once again become an excuse to flex military muscle, as the...

With Russia and China vetoing a UN Security Council resolution to refer the situation in Syria to the International...

The last two decades have seen a growing global appetite for peace but unless concerted, informed action is taken...

The arrest of the decades-long leader of the 'republican movement' in Northern Ireland, Gerry Adams, has provoked...