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A recent fact-finding trip to Baghdad and Najaf suggests that such fears are exaggerated. In 2003, the United States overturned the secular but predominantly Sunni Arab regime of Saddam Hussein and then presided over the installation of a more representative...

Kourosh is married and is his family’s breadwinner; he does not own any property and has not used state housing assistance. So he meets the conditions necessary to receive almost-for-free land on which to build a 70 sq m apartment....

He is now the new cause célèbre of the Iranian Opposition, with MPs and Western organisations demanding an investigation into the death of a man who knew too much. The official cause of death for the physician is heart attack...

November 2009 New Zealand's Security Intelligence Service created something of a furore this week when they asked staff and students at many of our tertiary institutions to keep an eye on their peers for signs of "terror science". Apparently, the...

Iran hanged a convicted rapist in a public square in the northern city of Qaemshahr in the Caspian Sea Mazandaran province, the Iranian newspaper Kayhan reported on Monday. The report identified the man hanged on Sunday as A.B. aged 24,...

Lebanon First bloc MP Hadi Hobeich said on Sunday that a regional or international “green light” accelerated the cabinet formation, adding that “all the parties allied with Syria and Iran took serious action towards facilitating the process.” He voiced hope...

Presumably that was the intent of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in choosing President Barack Obama. The prize “seemed a kind of prayer and encouragement by the Nobel committee for future endeavor and more consensual American leadership,” Steven Erlanger and...