Yemen’s collapse is a taste of things to come

Yemen’s crisis serves as a grave warning for the looming risks to states in coming years and decades, not just in the region, but around the world

Saudi’s new king of terror

In a flurry of virtually falling over themselves to praise Saudi Arabia's new ruler, the press has overlooked his disturbing track record

No Piers Morgan. This is how to destroy the Islamic State

The religious façade is merely another element of IS propaganda, the mobilising ideology that provides a veneer of legitimacy for its existence

How Islamist rebels engineered Israel’s oil grab in Syria

Israel’s ambitions to conquer the Golan Heights and western hopes to topple Assad raise questions around the discovery of oil in the Golan

US ‘democracy promotion’ in Ukraine is about dominating ‘Greater Middle East’

Kerry and Abdullah’s plan was to damage Russia, Iran, Syria and Venezuela’s economies, thereby curtailing their geopolitical clout

Blowback in Paris

Recognising that the Paris atrocity is predictable blowback, does not absolve the perpetrators of responsibility for their terrible crimes; but it might help us find a path to safety

US Army report calls for ‘military support’ of Israeli energy grab

US military strategists are contemplating the threat of war to redraw the Middle East’s energy architecture around Israel

Israel’s looming gas empire requires a final solution in Gaza

The fundamental obstacle to the 'peace package' and Israel's interests in becoming a regional energy hegemony is the continued existence of Hamas in Gaza

Why the war on ISIS will fail

To defeat ISIS we must study lessons in recent history, apply a drastic change of direction and do some serious soul-searching in our own role in fostering the instability that incubates extremism