Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad may turn out to be the biggest beneficiary of last week’s massacre in Paris.

There is not a village in the besieged Gaza Strip that does not show signs of the aftermath of Israel’s third bout of aggression, the first anniversary of which took place on Monday.

When the former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in April, in a trial internationally condemned as unconstitutional, unfair and deeply politicised,

“The enemy of my enemy,” goes the old adage, “is my friend”.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is having a tough time these days with war, or the threat of war,

Israel’s Gaza war has cost the country far more than the death of 64 soldiers, with growing domestic discontent and negative economic repercussions.

PLO Central Committee member Nabil Amr has been quoted as saying that a recognition by the Palestinian Authority (PA) of Israel as a Jewish state is possible in some form.

Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour has set January 14 and 15, 2014, as the dates for a referendum on the country’s amended constitution. Amr Moussa – former Minister of Foreign Affairs under Mubarak and the 2012 presidential candidate – is chairman of the (fifty-member) Committee tasked with amending the 2012 constitution.

Prison authorities in Bangladesh have hurriedly carried out the execution of Abdul Qadir Mollah, an Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-i-Islami Bangladesh (JIB), following an equally swiftly conducted hearing by a full bench of the appellate division of the Supreme Court which upheld his death sentence.

The military junta in Egypt, headed by army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, seems to be thoroughly stupid as it is manifestly criminal.