World View

Last Tuesday there was a vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, that may have changed the course of history.

Most crimes everywhere have always gone unpunished.

What is hard to keep in mind, with all the hype that is flying around, is that there is no particular reason for either side in the Ukraine war to want a ceasefire right now, let alone a full peace...

"They kidnapped; they killed; they humiliated; they kicked people out of jobs," explained an Alawite writer living in coastal Syria.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) retired to its sickbed as soon as Donald Trump won the presidential election last November.

What is the difference between smash-and-grab raids and protection rackets?

In classical civilisations, there was a continuing, unresolved debate about whether history moved forward or just went around in circles: was it linear or was it cyclical?

I am very cross with myself.

The Strait of Malacca is strategically important.

We seem to be drifting back into the world of "might makes right".

In the 80 hours between Wednesday, January 15, when the Gaza ceasefire agreement was announced, and Sunday, January 19, when it went into effect, Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed 123...

The name is brilliant: "vintage tonnage".

Turning yourself from a democratically elected president into a dictator is a tricky operation, and most people who try it fail.

One week in, the ceasefire in Lebanon seems to be holding, but everything is connected: only three days later, the civil war in Syria started up again after a de facto four-year truce.

The indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza...

The consensus assumption is still that Donald Trump will force Ukraine to yield to Russia as soon as he takes office on January 20.

Two weeks ago Iran, in response to Israel’s assassinations of the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas, its most important allies in the Arab world, fired 181 ballistic missiles at Israel.