With Kadima refusing publicly to join Likud, time is running out for Netanyahu to form a government, writes Khaled Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem

To blow things out of proportion is not the wise thing to do, warns Sherine Bahaa

Syrian officials were thrilled to hear that a US ambassador to Damascus will be coming. But Washington is not really rushing it, says Bassel Oudat in Damascus

Oula Farawati reads the reshuffle of Jordan's government

Israel's right-wing government will accelerate the process of uniting Palestinian factions, predicts Saleh Al-Naami

When it comes to Israeli-US strategies of dealing with Palestinians and their resistance movements, carrots are also sticks, writes Ramzy Baroud

Just as the world believes Iraq is returning to peace, new wars are threatening the country, says Salah Hemeid

The threat posed by Islamists in Somalia is mounting as encapsulated in this week's assassination of AU peacekeepers, but Somali policymakers are bent on breaking the vicious circle of militancy and war, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Can the Algerian government get voters to turn up for the 9 April presidential elections, Nabil Fawwaz asks from Algiers