An Oil-Slicked Playing Field

November 21, 2005

The scramble for petroleum by developing countries worldwide is reshaping global geopolitics in favor of oil-rich nations like Iran, Venezuela and Sudan.

Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

August 31, 2005

By insisting on its right to develop the full range of nuclear technology, Iran has become a Third World hero.

Iran and America

March 9, 2004

Iran and America are following a negative policy of not alienating each other.

Sectarianism in Iraq

January 15, 2004

The Post-Saddam Problem

December 18, 2002

Oil, Iraq and America

December 16, 2002

It is the prospect of uncontested access to the world's second-largest oil reserves that excites popular imagination in the United States.

Iraq and Poison Gas

August 28, 2002

Iraq Woos Its Neighbors

August 1, 2002

Saudis: US Go Home?

February 21, 2002

Letters

November 15, 2001

Bush's Uzbek Bargain

October 17, 2001

After weeks of evasion, reminiscent of two illicit lovers keen to avoid scandal, the US and Uzbekistan announced that they had made a deal.

Bush and bin Laden

September 20, 2001

In American eyes bin Laden is the epitome of evil. But, sadly and frustratingly, many Afghans and Pakistanis revere him as a veteran of the 1980s anti-Soviet jihad.

Iraq's Rehabilitation

October 26, 2000

Meanwhile, in Iraq...

July 8, 1999

Iraqi Sideshow Continues

May 20, 1999

Saddam the Phoenix

April 29, 1999

Flying the Iraqi Skies

February 25, 1999

The Cost of an Afghan 'Victory'

January 28, 1999