| |   Syrian opposition head offers to resign
| ZEINA KARAM | Associated Press= BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's main opposition council is crumbling under the weight of infighting and divisions over issues that cut to the heart of the revolution, including accusat...
Review: Cohen struggles to stay on-script in ‘The Dictator’
| With “The Dictator,” Sacha Baron Cohen and his partner in comic crime, director Larry Charles, leave the improvisation of “Borat” and “Bruno” behind and return to the more struct...
GLOBAL NATO: A Geostrategic Instrument of Worldwide Military Conquest
| The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was founded in 1949. Its supporters claim that this military alliance succeeded in building a dam against the aggressive expansionist communist system that threatened to...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II: British Monarch Celebrates Coronation Jubilee with Gulf Despots and Dictators
| When Queen Elizabeth II receives her guests at Windsor Castle today to celebrate 60 years as head of the British state she will be greeted and fawned upon by some of the worlds most ruthless dictators. | Som...
Al-Qaeda chief urges Saudis to rise up
| AL-QAEDA chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Saudis to follow Tunisians, Egyptians and Libyans in rising up against their rulers. | "Why don't you rise while you are the sons of the proud and strong tribes...
Al-Qaeda chief urges Saudis to rise up
| AL-QAEDA chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Saudis to follow Tunisians, Egyptians and Libyans in rising up against their rulers. | "Why don't you rise while you are the sons of the proud and strong tribes...
Search for way out of Afghanistan central to Nato talks in Washington
| LARA MARLOWE | SUMMIT PREVIEW:The US will seek financial pledges just as Nato members are cutting defence budgets | NATO WILL focus on extricating itself from the longest war in its history, in Afghanistan, ...
Irish citizen off UN list for al-Qaeda sanctions
| MARY FITZGERALD, Foreign Affairs Correspondent | A LIBYAN-BORN naturalised Irish citizen has been removed from the UN Security Council's al- Qaeda sanctions list after three years of attempts to clear his nam...
Libya scrutinises election candidates
Tripoli - Libya faces the daunting task of vetting thousands of candidates wishing to compete in the June elections for a constituent assembly, with several bodies involved in the process. | “If a person ...
Security clouds speedy recovery of oil sector
| Tripoli: Increasing insecurity and disruptions are overshadowing Libya's speedy return to pre-war oil production, delaying much-needed foreign expertise and investment as well as threatening output. | Libya, ...
UAE current account surplus quadruples in 2011
| Dubai: The UAE's current account surplus quadrupled to Dh112.7 billion in 2011 as both crude and non-oil exports soared, the central bank's annual report showed on Thursday. | The surplus surged to 8.5 ...
Syrian opposition faces more fractures, infighting
| The head of Syria's main opposition council offered to resign Thursday after some members threatened to pull out of the umbrella group amid rampant infighting, striking a blow to efforts to present a united f...
Radicalism biggest threat to Algerian and Syrian regimes
| Both Algeria and Syria held elections this month – in Syria on May 7 and in Algeria on 10 May. Did these elections change the configuration of power in either country? There was evidently no such intent...
Nato's shameful role in Libya
| Libya was supposed to be different. The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan had been learned, British Prime Minister David Cameron and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy insisted last year. This would be a r...
NATO in a Time of Austerity
| In his valedictory speech last year, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates argued that the partnership between the North American and European sides of the NATO alliance needed a new impulse. Related in Ne...
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