Marked for liquidation
This week's bloody events announced the death of the unilateral Palestinian ceasefire, reports Khaled Amayreh, in Hebron, and below, traces the life and politial career of Ismael Abu Shanab, a moderate Hamas leader assassinated by Israel

Unleashing the bulldozers
As Israel pursues its quiet policy of ethnic cleansing, the PA fails to help Palestinians remain on the land, writes Muna Hamzeh

Nowhere to turn
US officials say there is no option but to try to revive the roadmap while insisting on dismantling Palestinian armed resistance groups, Khaled Dawoud reports from Washington

Prisoner swap on the horizon
Israel's handover of the bodies of two Hizbullah fighters is seen as a precursor to an imminent prisoner exchange. Mohalhel Fakih writes

Sudan looks for compromises
What kind of peace deal is emerging, or not emerging, in Sudan? Dina Ezzat takes a look

Iran in the crosshairs
British-Iranian tensions have climbed yet another notch following the arrest by British police of the former Iranian Ambassador to Argentina, writes Mustafa El-Labbad

Lockerbie vote adjourned
French authorities on Monday were still threatening to veto a UN lifting of sanctions on Libya after talks in Tripoli failed to reach an agreement on a final settlement for the families of the 1989 bombing of a French airliner...

Wanted: dead or alive
The arrest of two of Saddam Hussein's closest and most ruthless aides closes a chapter in the book of repression for Iraq's Kurdish population, writes Nyier Abdou

What Iraqis want
Arabs need to do more to help Iraq in its reconstruction process, writes Salah Hemeid

Short of recognition
The GCC support for the new Iraqi Governing Council is believed to be a compromise to appease all parties. Ahmed Mustafa reports

Against the occupation
Although a previously unheard of group claimed responsibility for the bombing of UN headquarters in Iraq, the US believes it is an "inside job". Michael Jansen reports from Baghdad

Mourning a peacemaker
UN special envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello was laid to rest on Monday in the small French town of Thonon-les-Bains on the Swiss border. He was the highest-ranking UN official to be killed in the bomb blast that shook the organisation's headquarters in Baghdad on 19 August...

Vivacious and outspoken
Born in Cairo on 13 June 1946, Nadia Younes grew up in the Egyptian capital where she earned a bachelor's degree in English literature at Cairo University in 1966...