A unity agreement between the two major Palestinian political parties, Fatah and Hamas, has been greeted with scepticism from Palestinian youth activists, writes Nigel O'Connor, a freelance journalist in Ramallah.
Homs continues to endure an onslaught of rockets and mortars in the regime’s worst massacre of civilians since the uprising in Syria began 11 months ago.
Crikey media wrap: The United States government has begun reviewing military options in Syria, as the Syrian army ramps up its military assault on opposition fighters in the city of Homs.
Last week there was some hope that Russia might be coming on board with the need to do something about the steadily increasing bloodshed in Syria.
Twenty-two children living in Kabul's refugee camps froze to death in the last month. How is it that after billions of international aid dollars, Afghanis are dying from the cold? Rod Nordland investigates.
The Russian government's PR machine went into overdrive to try and explain why president-in-wait Vladimir Putin vetoed a UN resolution against violence in Syria, which was a badly misjudged decision, writes David Hearst.
At last Kevin Rudd – who admittedly has been fairly vocal about the need to get rid of the vile butcher Bashar Al-Assad — has issued a statement about the failure of the Security Council and Assad’s mass murder in Homs, reports Bernard Keane.
Syria is in civil war. Yet unlike Libya, where an identifiable opposition movement was able to garner international support, the situation in Syria is far more opaque, explains Dr Benjamin MacQueen.
For a couple of months things have been looking pretty bleak on the Iranian front.
In what could prove a turning point in US/Iran relations, UN nuclear inspectors began a mission to investigate rumours of a secret weapons program in Iran, reports The Associated Press.
