Exactly five years ago, the US-backed, Saudi-led Arab coalition carried out its first air strikes on Yemen in an effort to reinstate the disgraced, exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. He is a statesman in name only who I have argued previously has neither power, authority nor legitimacy. The strikes targeted the Houthi movement, which is supported ...

Friday (March 6th) morning, international news agencies reported the arrest of prominent figures of the dynasty and a large number of military-civilian bureaucrats in Saudi Arabia, bringing the Kingdom's domestic politics back to the forefront of the global agenda.

An unease in India, jubilation in Pakistan, and cautious optimism on the streets of Afghanistan sum up the varied moods in South Asia after the signing of the U.S.-Taliban peace deal.

Iran is fighting two outbreaks, only one of which is a physical health hazard. The other is a tendency, equally malignant though, to portray the country as a global threat, in a very novel way.

I remember when ISIL first burst into the global consciousness - with the fall of Mosul on June 4, 2014. I happened to be visiting my parents. My mother rushed in and told me that terrorists in Toyotas had overrun Iraq’s second-largest city in a modern-day Mongol Horde. I rolled my eyes. I explained to her that, as usual, she was exaggerating....

The Trump regime’s assassination of widely respected Iranian Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani made things less safe in the region and beyond. Killing him was an act of war, the highest of high crimes under international law — turning millions of Iranians, Iraqis, others in the region, and elsewhere into raging US haters for good reason....

the Iraqi people's demonstration is the second slap to the US in the last 20 days. The first one was Iran's missile attack on the US military base in Ain- al-Assad on January 8, and the demonstration was the second one.

Almost immediately after Friday’s assassination of Iranian Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani by American drone attack, social media began buzzing. Across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram war weary Americans called for peace and an end to hostilities from “our government”. Both liberals and radicals expressed a range of sentiments ...

All wars and related hostile actions are unjustifiably justified by Big Lies and deception. Iranian IRGC Quds Force commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was a redoubtable figure. Widely respected in Iran and abroad, he was a key strategist in pursuing regional peace and stability — free from the scourge of US-supported terrorists ...

General Soleimani remains the commander as far as confrontation with US strategies continues.