Opinion

The Christian religious minority from northern Iraq came to global attention in 2014 after the Islamic State group swept through the country,massacring hundreds. An...

According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, at least 70% of all the fatalities in armed conflicts around the world last year were...

  Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi continues to reach out to America for help in rallying the forces of good against a rising tide of evil—the...

Hosseini's best-selling novel was about life in Afghanistan, but in the 30 words above he sums up the way men govern the lives of...

In that happy set-up, the intriguing word "tolerance" is nowhere to be seen. Respect for the minority is too rare a commodity: "This is...

There is general acknowledgement in the area of Egypt’s overwhelming importance and leadership – except in the pro-Iranian elements dominant in Damascus, Lebanon-Hizbullah, Gaza-Hamas,...

  Waiting at bedside for the sunken eyes to open and/or the swollen hands to move! The borrowed weakened heart is pumping, aided by a...

In the multiple wars and conflicts raging in Syria, Iraq and Egypt, a particularly vicious war is intensifying against the descendants of the first...