Gwynne Dyer discusses Russia's decision to go to war in Syria.
It is quite possible for soldiers to cross a frontier “by accident on an unmarked section,” and that is how Moscow
The last time “Mare Nostrum”(Latin for “Our Sea”) was used as a political slogan in Italy, Mussolini’s fascists
“Tatooine” is, you will surely agree, a pretty stupid name for a planet, but there are so many Star Wars fans
After half a century of stasis, there are big new strategic realities in the Middle East, but people are having trouble
It was not worth even one life,” said Harry Patch shortly before he died in 2009 at the age of 111.
Two high-profile incidents last week, at opposite ends of the Arab world. In northern Iraq, recently conquered
Maybe the crew who launched the missile that brought down Malaysian Airlines flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on Thursday
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said something cryptic last Friday
“The Polish-American alliance is worthless, even harmful, as it gives Poland a false sense of security. It's bullshit.”
Whatever else you may say about the “young war criminal” (as British journalist Alan Watkins used to call former prime minister Tony Blair)
To the vast surprise of absolutely nobody, Field Marshal Abdel Fatah al-Sisi won the Egyptian presidential election last week.
Conducting an orderly retreat is the hardest thing not only in war but also in politics, as Russian President Vladimir Putin
If you were running China, and you wanted to distract your own population from economic woes at home
Did he just blink? I think he did.
Hillary Clinton would never have used the word when she was US Secretary of State, because she still has presidential ambitions.
“I prefer death to surrender,” said Pakistan’s former military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, on 1 April to the special court
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron rambled a bit on his visit to Afghanistan last December, but ended up
An Indian election is a marathon, not a sprint.
The first mistake of the Ukrainian revolutionaries was to abandon the agreement of 23 February to create a national unity
