Israel plans to ask Washington to accept a huge West Bank land grab in return for a Gaza withdrawal, reports Khalid Amayreh from the West Bank

Nermeen Al-Mufti doesn't have the heart to leave her motherland

Abbas Kadhim argues that the Iraqi interim government has no tools to deal with either external or internal challenges

Frozen in time and space, unable to leave their houses, the people of Palestine will be celebrating the Jewish New Year by suffering even greater oppression than usual. Anne Gwynne writes from Nablus about the horrors of "lockdown"

Sudan's leading Islamist opposition figure, Hassan Al-Turabi, is fomenting trouble for the Sudanese authorities, writes Mahmoud Murad

International controversy over the Syrian military presence in Lebanon seems no nearer resolution, writes Mohalhel Fakih from Beirut

The tradition of co-existence between the Muslim Brothers and the Jordanian regime seems close to breaking point, writes Sana Abdallah from Amman

Arab states are no longer fighting amongst themselves, they are just taking separate roads. Dina Ezzat reports on a week of high-level inter-Arab meetings

Yemeni forces captured and killed Shia rebel cleric Hussein Al-Houthi, but the roots of the rebellion live on, writes Peter Willems from Sanaa

The Bush administration's bid to bring the Iraqi resistance to heel before the US presidential elections are destined to failure, writes Hassan Hamid from Baghdad