Gazans are being warned by telephone to vacate their homes or be bombed, unsure if the calls are genuine or just cruel, sadistic punishment, writes Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank

In interview with Al-Ahram Weekly, Ghassan Al-Khatib rings the alarm bell for pro-American Arab regimes

Israeli forces pound Gaza relentlessly as the world watches Lebanon where Israeli crimes of aggression are no less appalling, writes Erica Silverman

With no immediate prospect of a US withdrawal from Iraq, Nermeen Al-Mufti examines the human cost of the ongoing sectarian violence

It is time for Somalia's political leaders to put the country's national interest first, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Dina Ezzat follows the latest episode of diplomatic attempts to hold an all-inclusive Iraqi reconciliation conference