Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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Retired British Army Major-Generals Roddy Porter (C) and Tim Cross (R) speak to Asharq Al-Awsat. (Asharq Al-Awsat/James Hanna)

UK Major-Generals on Iraq lessons for Syria

by Ben Leakey | Sep 17, 2013 | Interviews

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hardly anybody was surprised when US president Barack Obama raised the possibility of a military strike on Syria following a chemical attack on August 21 in a Damascus suburb that killed hundreds of people, which the UN confirmed took place in...

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A U.S. soldier aims his weapon at a man who a soldier had just shot in the neck as he attempted to flee down a narrow alley in a van, across the street from the scene of Tuesday’s intense shootout on a house in Mosul, Iraq on Wednesday, July 23, 2003. (AP)

Ten Years On: The Iraq War Was Not Justified

by Gerard Russel | Mar 31, 2013 | Debate

The first Westerner to invade and occupy Iraq has been respected and admired by its people ever since. I refer, of course, to Alexander the Great, known in Arabic as Dhu Al–Qurnain. Even the British, when they took over the administration of the country a hundred...

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Iraqi women living in Yemen hold up the Iraqi flag used during the Baath Party’s rule under ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, as they take part in a protest in front of the Iraqi Embassy, in the capital Sanaa on January 16, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED HUWAIS)

Baghdad Ten Years Later

by Samir Atallah | Mar 9, 2013 | Opinion

A decade has passed since the huge American mistake that saw then President George W. Bush shooting himself in the foot. The difference between this president and his father, George Bush Senior, is that the latter brought together a coalition of 33 different...