extremism

Terrorized Tunisia

TUNIS – The recent terror attack on Berlin’s Christmas market – which killed 12 and injured more than 50 – cast a pall over this year’s holiday celebrations across Europe. Viewed from Tunis, where I happened to be during the fallout, the attack has also had a major, albeit different, […]

David Cameron ‘ultimately responsible’ for Libya collapse and the rise of Isis, Commons report concludes

  The scathing verdict comes just one day after Mr Cameron’s sudden announcement that he will leave Westminster immediately Rob Merrick Deputy Political Editor @Rob_Merrick The chairman of Britain’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Crispin Blunt, described the decision to intervene in Libya in 2011 as based on a ‘blood-curdling assessment’ […]

Too Strong to Lose, Too Weak to Win

Middle East expert Patrick Cockburn dissects the “age of disintegration” that gave us Brexit and Donald Trump. PATRICK COCKBURN JUL. 2, 2016  Margus Johanson/Thinkstock This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and […]

How to face new waves of terrorism

Jun 19,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh Every day, the new tactics of Daesh prove more efficient in achieving two major goals — conducting terrorist attacks and piling pressure on the security apparatuses of many countries. Since the declaration of “the caliphate”, security challenges around the world have taken on […]