Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist..

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?.

President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a 'world order' dreame….

Individuals in various countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia listen to the tapes of bin Laden. They gather in groups of four or five. They feel they ….

I still wonder if the United States realizes how much planning went into this. When we talk about "mindless terrorists," we are lying to ourselves..

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind..

Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstand….

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?.

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war..

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers..

People turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left..

It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find..

When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and ….

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those w….

A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, l….

Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badl….

If it is bin Laden, he's a very intelligent guy. He's been planning his war for a long time. I remember the last time I met him in 1997 in Afghanista….

The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political message; not just to Preside….

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist..

I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair p….

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating..