by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh

Twenty years have passed since the US invasion of Afghanistan, President George W Bush's response to the 1991 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, the responsibility for which was laid at the door of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

by Motasem A Dalloul

Over 600 people, including clergymen, MPs, political figures, and army officers, have attended the swearing-in ceremony of Bashar Al-Assad at the presidential palace in Damascus. He is now serving a fourth 7-year term of office after beating two little-known candidates in the May presidential election with 95.1 per cent of the votes cast in government-held areas.

by Dr Ramzy Baroud

Another football "controversy" arose when footballers playing in the ongoing UEFA Euro 2020 tournament kneeled down before kick-off in protest against racism, a serious problem that has plagued football stadiums for many years. While some teams and players chose to kneel, others opted not to. Flimsy excuses such as "the players weren't ready" and "politics should stay out of football" were put forward.

By Seema Khan

The reasons behind the meeting of the Kashmiri leaders and the Indian Prime minister Narebdra Modi and home minister Amit Shah at prime minister's residence on 24th June, which lasted for three and half hours, had thrown up many questions.

Why this change of heart after keeping the leaders under arrest for so long? These were the same leaders whom Amit Shah had called the ‘Gupkar gang’ and said that they are irrelevant.

by Muhammad Hussein

Military withdrawals announced by the United States don't always happen the way that we expect them to. They are either drawn-out over a number of years, during which they may be delayed and rescheduled; are cancelled by the return of "boots on the ground" a short while later; or never fully happen at all, with the deployment of advisers or "contractors".

by Seema Khan

‘Is India still the greatest democracy?’ is the question foreign media and various think tanks have been raising for the last few years. The international rating agencies like Freedom House, Freddo house, Swedish agency V Dem, etc. have been downgrading India in the list of international ranking of democracies.

by Thembisa Fakude

Changes in the makeup of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, hardly cause for Palestinian optimism, even at the best of times. All governments of Israel since 1948 have pushed the Palestinians and their legitimate aspirations to near oblivion. The ousting of now-former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday was received with little outward enthusiasm in occupied Palestine. As many people pointed out, it is the "same old same old".

By Lorne Cook

Brussels, Jun 13 (AP-PTI) US President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts will bid a symbolic farewell to Afghanistan on Monday in their last summit before America winds up its longest forever war and the US military pulls out for good.

The meeting is bound to renew questions about whether NATO's most ambitious operation ever was worth it.

by Dr Ramzy Baroud

Why does the US advocate a free market while doing its utmost to stifle it? The current US-China economic war is a perfect example of this perplexing question.

by Yvonne Ridley

It doesn't take a genius to see that the failing Zionist project called Israel is coming apart at the seams. It was a genius, though, who predicted the demise of the fledgling state when he was asked to help raise funds for its terrorist cells.

by Dr Ramzy Baroud

The political discourse of Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, is similar to that of an ineffectual king who has been isolated in his palace for far too long. The king speaks of prosperity and peace, and counts his innumerable achievements and wealth tirelessly, while his people are dying of starvation outside and begging pointlessly for his attention.

by Dr Ramzy Baroud

The ceasefire on 21 May has, for now, brought the Israeli war on Gaza to an end. However, this ceasefire is not permanent, and constant Israeli provocations anywhere in Palestine could reignite the bloody cycle all over again. Moreover, the Israeli siege on Gaza remains in place, as well as the Israeli military occupation and the rooted system of apartheid that exists all over Palestine.