Simon Tisdall
Is there nothing you will not lie about? Do you have no shame?” demanded Samantha Power, US ambassador to the UN
Updated 18 Dec, 2016 08:02am
Critics accuse the Awami League government of failing to act effectively to stop the carnage.
Updated 02 Jul, 2016 10:32am
Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh region continued for a third day on Monday
Updated 05 Apr, 2016 07:43am
Putin was the man everybody wanted to meet in G20 Summit.
Updated 19 Nov, 2015 09:06am
Yemen’s undeclared civil war has suddenly exploded into a region-wide crisis.
Updated 27 Mar, 2015 10:30am
Hostage-taking and hostage swaps have been a common form of conflict zone commerce in the Middle East.
Updated 30 Jan, 2015 07:55am
NOURI al-Maliki, Iraq’s tough-guy prime minister, bears much responsibility for the security collapse in Mosul and...
Published 13 Jun, 2014 06:00am
Erdogan may use this result to justify clampdowns on press freedom and protests in ‘defence of national security’
Published 02 Apr, 2014 07:32am
Generally speaking, Japanese bureaucrats are not much given to exaggeration. So when a senior government insider in...
Published 03 Jan, 2014 07:39am
As east Asia’s leading nations talk tensely of war and peace, critics of Shinzo Abe, Japan’s pugnaciously...
Published 18 Dec, 2013 07:31am
A SIMMERING territorial and maritime dispute in Asia erupted at the weekend as Washington warned Beijing it would...
Published 26 Nov, 2013 07:18am
LONDON: The Syrian nation is dying as an indifferent world looks on, and the territory it occupies risks becoming...
Published 05 Nov, 2013 07:23am
COMING from a man who owes his job and probably his life to US and British military support, President Hamid...
Published 10 Oct, 2013 07:04am
THE distracting international furore over chemical weapons use in Syria, and this week’s shamefacedly cautious UN...
Published 19 Sep, 2013 07:02am
Vladimir Putin’s highly unusual and razor-edged comment piece setting out his views on the Syria crisis, addressed...
Published 13 Sep, 2013 07:24am
A group of influential US-based activists has said that South Sudan, which celebrated the second anniversary of its...
Updated 10 Jul, 2013 08:16am
Riek Machar Teny, the vice-president of South Sudan who is planning to oust the president, is known to some for his...
Published 06 Jul, 2013 05:20am
If one episode sums up Margaret Thatcher’s instinctive, no-nonsense approach to international affairs, it was her appearance in Aspen, Colorado, in August 1990.
Published 10 Apr, 2013 05:01am
THE idea that a woman can mediate successfully between armed groups of hostile men, and that one of these groups comprises hardline, Sharia-touting Islamists, might seem far-fetched to traditional Western societies.
Published 15 Feb, 2013 12:00am
It has become fashionable to suggest there is little difference between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney over the main international challenges facing the US and its allies, and that few real changes in American foreign
Published 06 Nov, 2012 03:11am
