By : ArabNews Editorial The Muslim Rohingya population of Burma has been described in a UN report “as the most persecuted people in the world.” To look at international businessmen flooding into the country’s five-star hotels in search of lucrative

By : Harun Yahya A country’s flag is a mark of honor and nobody is allowed to violate it in any case. The situation gets even worse if that violation comes from terror organizations bent on tearing a country apart.

By : Shiraz Hasan The speed at which the fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria have captured one town after another in Iraq since Tuesday has shaken not only the authorities in Baghdad but also decision makers

By : Bikram Vohra I want to share a thought. I come from a family of four brothers, the only ones in any army in the world who made the rank of a general. No other commissioned band of brothers

By : Elsa Franco Al Ghaslan Human beings cannot help thinking. It is a peculiarity that makes them different from animals. And when they think, they cannot help creating, which — in itself — is a positive capability. After all,

By : Jamal Doumani As Afghans headed to the polls this Saturday to cast their votes for the next president in a run-off election, one that appeared to be a dead heat between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, it was

By : Ashoka Mody The International Monetary Fund’s managing director, Christine Lagarde, asked the BBC’s Andrew Marr, “Do I have to go on my knees?” Lagarde was apologizing for the IMF’s poor forecasting of the United Kingdom’s recent economic performance,

By : Nilofar Suhrawardy It is indeed surprising that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has drawn attention to only one problem faced by Indian minorities, which is poverty. His government is “committed,” as expressed in President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to

By : Jo Biddle The US is reluctantly being dragged back into the smoldering ashes of the Iraq war amid accusations that its failure to intervene in Syria aided the rise of militants now closing in on Baghdad. More than

By : Volker Perthes One aspect of the Ukraine crisis that both Russia and the West need to understand is that the rest of the world appears to be relatively unconcerned about it. Though the West, along with Japan, may