The interim constitution in Kurdistan states that Islam is the source of legislation. In the hours ahead of the referendum, is religion on the back burner?

Zero tolerance for anti-Semitism should mean zero tolerance. Nothing less.

The Sunnis were frightened and bewildered as to how their status had plunged. They were shocked to find that they had only made up one fifth of the total population in Iraq.

The nightmare of social media in the eyes of anti-Israel propagandists has just started, with no end in sight, and all that hard work at spreading propaganda for decades may turn out to be in vain.

During World War I, the demographics of Christians and Kurds were both each approximately 20% of the whole of the middle east. Albeit the latter increased in numbers due to Kurdification and forced conversion to Islam. In 1915 the Kurds volunteered en masse with the Ottoman in committing a genocide against Armenians and Assyrians. These... Read more »

On November 4th 1979, nine months after the successful Islamic revolution in Iran. A hostage crisis had ensued, when students had stormed the American Embassy in Iran, in what was to be known as the longest hostage crisis in history.

During an election, it is always necessary to choose the lesser of evils, that being David Cameron in this case.

After ISIS made spectacular gains of large swathes of Iraq, dozens of reports of ISIS' savagery on local populations emerged.

The recent terror attacks in France show how vulnerable the Jews are in all of Europe. Can they survive the persecution?