Michael Chandler's title defense set

For the moment, former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani looks like the comeback kid of the country's presidential campaign. At 79, he knows this is his last chance and if he passes muster with the Guardian Council, which vets candidates, he ...

Coexistence among Syria's conflicted communities is in short supply these days but volunteers for Musalaha, a group whose name means reconciliation, are trying to engineer rapprochement and tolerance. The organisation, comprised of individuals from ...

These days needy Syrians do not bother to go to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) distribution centre in the Maysat district of Damascus. One of the tent warehouses is empty and the other has supplies only for residents already registered in ...

We left Beirut at half past six last Saturday morning while the city was asleep, swooped up the highway to Damascus and down to the Bekaa Valley town of Chatoura. There we paused for a sandwich and coffee before braving the lines at Lebanese ...

US President Barack Obama has a number of good domestic reasons to try to steer clear of direct involvement in the Syrian quagmire. The primary reason is that the conflict has become a quagmire, a swamp that could entrap the US in yet another ...

US President Barack Obama has been compelled to reiterate his intention of closing the bitterly controversial prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba due to a hunger strike by inmates against indefinite detention without trial. The strike, which began in ...

Having kept a low profile since leaving office in 2009, George W. Bush laid a claim to a legacy last week when he dedicated his $250 million Library in Dallas, Texas, the city where John Kennedy was shot down in 1963. The fact that Dallas was chosen ...

This past week's visit to Israel by US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel was an indication of just how worried Washington is about fast-paced developments in this region. First, Hagel revealed that the Obama administration has adopted a confused policy ...

Last week's violent events in Boston are rooted in an anti-colonial war that has been spluttering on and off since the late 18th century when the Russian empire imposed control over the Caucausus mountains that had been under Turkish and Persian ...