Past injustices inflicted on the last outpost of empire need to be acknowledged – and redressed.
OSCE mediators urge an end to attacks after a month in which the 20-year-old ceasefire was broken in thousands of incidents.
The last Minsk agreement on eastern Ukraine failed to bring peace. The latest looks similar—but the context has changed.
The Syrian Arab Army has multiple charities that go house to house looking after its men in uniform.
Notwithstanding the ceasefire agreed in Minsk, unless Western policymakers take into account just how fragile the situation inside Ukraine really is, the promise of last year's Maidan revolution may be snuffed out.
The key protagonist in channelling bottom-up solidarity proved to be – not for the first time in Greece’s history - the institution of the extended family.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, toasted in the west as a rational thinker disinclined to give in to bombastic rhetoric, has also resorted to Iranophobia.
An interview on the origins of Islamic State and its relationship with regional and global powers.
The ceasefire agreement in Minsk over Ukraine was better than no outcome at all. But only a little better.
The occupied territories are trapped in global structures of neoliberal capitalist exploitation, within which the PA and, indeed, Israel itself, increasingly resemble auxiliary nodes.
The containing of an explosion on the Hizbollah-Israel frontier has politics to thank. But next time could be different.
