Saddam hussein

Survival means victory: Preserving honor as a war objective - opinion

From Egypt to Iran, leaders often choose honor over surrender, enduring defeat rather than risking public humiliation.

 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks to the media at the UN headquarters in New York City, US, September 25, 2024
View of the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court, in Paris, France, January 25, 2024.

Paris court dismisses Jewish family's compensation claim against government for not paying rent

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reacts at a polling station inside Al-Rasheed Hotel during the parliamentary election in Baghdad, Iraq, November 11, 2025.

Iraq's former PM who helped fuel ISIS makes unlikely comeback - analysis

Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran's Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities

'Delayed deaths': UK report claims chemical agents used on Iranian protesters


How Bush’s Mideast plans got overturned by a multi-polar world

He came into office in January 1989, just three months before the Tiananmen Square protests began in China.

Father and son shake hands at the dedication for the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas April 25, 2013

George H.W. Bush, 41st U.S. president, dead at 94

Bush, the 41st president of the United States, lived longer than any of his predecessors. His death at 10:10 p.m. Central time was announced in a statement issued by longtime spokesman Jim McGrath.

Vice President George H.W. Bush gives his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana in this August 18, 1988 handout photo obtained by Reuters November 30, 2012

Is democracy feasible in Iraq?

The most poignant reason that majoritarian democracy for Iraq is a political fallacy is the role that political memory plays in defining groups views toward the state.

Vehicles drive under campaign posters ahead of the parliamentary election, in Erbil, Iraq

The Israeli Air Force ace who almost didn’t make it

He was the soldier who at first failed to qualify to be a pilot in the IAF, but who ended his 30-year career in the IAF as one of the top aces.

Amir Nachumi: ‘Becoming a pilot was an aspiration for many of us back then. The whole atmosphere in those days was to serve the country.’

The pen and the sword

The age of the dictator has not passed, alas, and demagogues are having their day.

A COPY of the book ‘Hitler, Mein Kampf. A Critical Edition’ lies on a display table in a bookshop in Munich in 2016

Wanted: A border

Yossi Beilin, architect of the Oslo Accords, offers a peace alternative.

Yossi Beilin

Peace with Iran Maybe?

The Jerusalem Post

The Curse of Saddam on Palestinians

The Jerusalem Post

An Admired Enemy

The Jerusalem Post

Advise and assist: The Iraqi army through the eyes of an American advisor

Fourteen years after the first insurgents emerged in Iraq in 2003, the US may have found a model that works in Iraq.

A US soldier runs at a coalition forces forward base near West Mosul, Iraq June 21, 2017