The elections that Hamas won

During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese VietCong guerrillas built a vast network of tunnels in the south of the country as part of the insurgency against the South Vietnamese government and their American allies. The tunnel network was a key base and shelter for the North Vietna ...  Show more

In May1984, three friends starting trekking along the Great Wall of China. It took 508 days for them to complete and they became the first people to do it. They finally reached their destination at the Jiayu Pass on 24 September 1985, having documented the condition of the wall e ...  Show more

This is a conversation with Tareq Baconi, author of the book "Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance" pub ...

The Palestinian Authority is working with US officials on a plan to run Gaza after the ongoing war is over, with one of its top leaders arguing that Israel’s aim to fully defeat Hamas is unrealistic and the militant group should instead join it under a new governing structure.  S ...  Show more

‏ماذا نعرف عن يحيى السنوار الذي تقول الإدارة الأمريكية إن كلمة منه كفيلة بإتمام صفقة تبادل للأسرى والرهائن بين حماس وإسرائيل. نسأل مراد الشيشاني الذي التقى رئيس الجناح السياسي لحماس في غزة قبل سنوات. وكانت وسائل إعلام إسرائيلية وعربية تناقلت أنباء مؤخرا عن قيام رئيس المكتب السياس ...  Show more

There is continuing anger in the West Bank over the death in custody of a vociferous critic of the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. Nizar Banat, an anti-corruption campaigner, was picked up in a violent night-time raid at his home in Hebron. The Palestinian Authority has laun ...  Show more