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The US Senate’s recent report into CIA practices has not exposed anything new. Nor should it be forgotten that these methods did not arise after 9/11, but over a century of colonial wars around the world.
As Washington reacts to the many questions thrown up by the Senate report into CIA practices under the previous administration, the issue of ultimate responsibility seems to have been swept aside. But Americans must demand accountability. Torture is torture.
Thousands of disaffected young Arabs have travelled to fight for the Islamic State group, where many are killed. Do they know what they are getting into?
Fears have been raised that IS is seeking a foothold in the subcontinent. But there is little Shia-Sunni tension in India to exploit, and the group has its eye firmly fixed on the Arab world.
The Iranian nuclear issue is integral to the geopolitics of the region. Iran is today infinitely more powerful than it has ever been by virtue of the systematic follies of a US regional policy completely determined by Israeli interests.
Since the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi, a power vacuum has led Libya down a path of factionalism and war. Isolated from both Tobruk and Tripoli's rule, extremists and separatists thrive, leaving the future of Libya hanging in the balance.
A domestic quarrel over beans took an unexpected turn when a group of Iraqi army soldiers stormed into a house in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood.
A domestic quarrel over beans took an unexpected turn when a group of Iraqi army soldiers stormed into a house in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood.
Lebanon needs to be self-criticial. Its sectarianism has undermined the state, and the country's capacity to contribute to regional progress.
The shocking yet effective media strategy employed by the Islamic State group has played to orientalist stereotypes of the Arab world - and Middle East news sources have failed to challenge their narrative.