Nearly three years have passed since violence erupted in Syria and peaceful anti-regime demonstrations were touched off in Bahrain. However, the approach adopted by the West and even countries in the region is deeply paradoxical to the point that it poses a challenge to most international norms and conventions. A …

Pressure mounts on Myanmar for an investigation amid reports that dozens of the persecuted minority were killed. Sittwe, Myanmar – In the dusty Burmese village of Thet Kay Pyin, Rosia sits tending to her elderly, disabled mother on the floor of a dark bamboo hut. Eighty-year-old Feroza cannot feed herself, speak, …

Soldiers lynched an innocent bystander in the Central African Republic yesterday, beating the man to death before scores of witnesses only moments after the new president had voiced “pride” in their professionalism. The brazen murder, carried out with the utmost brutality, was another sign of the nightmarish disintegration of this …

Two prominent American university professors say in the year 2014 Iran will challenge the US hegemony in the Middle East and the world. “The Islamic Republic aims to replace American hegemony with a more multi-polar distribution of power and influence,” Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett wrote in an article. …

Houthi fighters have overrun strongholds of a rival pro-Salafi tribal group in fighting that has killed at least 40 people in northern Yemen in the last two days, tribal sources said on Sunday. The fighting compounds the challenges faced by U.S.-allied Yemen, which is struggling to stabilise a country that …

Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Wednesday that his country’s nuclear technology is non-negotiable and US officials statements about Iranian nuclear facilities are invalid. “Iran’s nuclear talks are a reality and US officials should review this reality once more,” said the minister while speaking in a joint press conference …

A bomb attack has killed at least nine Shia Muslims and injured 30 others in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, security sources say. Local security officials said the blast took place on Tuesday evening near a mosque and a hotel in a Shia-dominated neighborhood of Peshawar – the capital of …

Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has released a report revealing that the Foreign Ministry has acknowledged its inability to face the growing boycott campaign despite resorting to all political and judicial means, which have been ineffective, especially against private companies. The report explained that the ministry has succeeded in putting pressure on some …

The Australian government has confiscated passports in an effort to prevent attacks by returning fighters. With estimates of up to 11,000 foreign fighters in Syria, Western powers are increasingly worried about the potential national security threat posed by returning fighters. But in a country more than 14,000 kilometres from the …

More than 2,300 militants were killed in infightings among rival militant groups in Syria in January, as tensions between various militant groups escalate, a monitoring group says. According to the report released by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 1700 militants were killed in infightings among the al-Qaeda-affiliated …