When Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius this week that he believes Israel was likely to attack Iran between April and June, it was ostensibly yet another expression of alarm at the Israeli government's threats of military action.
Author : Analysis by Gareth Porter*
Publ.Date : Wed, 4 Feb 2012 12:58 GMT
Will Israel attack Iran's nuclear facilities this spring? That is a question dominating the international agenda. Meanwhile, the grand project of a nuclear weapon-free Middle East is relegated to the utopian "day after" a solution is found to the Islamic republic's atomic programme.
Author : Analysis by Pierre Klochendler
Publ.Date : Fri, 6 Feb 2012 02:30 GMT
Attempts by regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to suppress the flow of information during the region's pro-democracy uprisings has led a higher number of journalists killed, attacked or arrested.
Author : Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau
Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:10 GMT
Fighting is continuing in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, according to activists, as Syrian security forces appeared to be reasserting their control over the restive fringes of the country's capital.
Author : Correspondents* - IPS/Al Jazeera
Publ.Date : Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:12 GMT
Only days ago, turning on the tap was cause for concern. Would there be running water? Now, it's reason for celebration.
Author : Pierre Klochendler
Publ.Date : Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:45 GMT
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