After the Jordanian king spoke by phone with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the first time since the Syrian conflict began over 10 years ago, Turks are now asking if Ankara will be next to reconcile. Jordan’s King Abdullah II, who backed regime change in Syria and allowed weapons to …

The Financial Times reported last week that numerous Afghan opposition leaders such as the famous Panjshir Valley commander Ahmad Massoud have fled to neighbouring Tajikistan and that they hope to use this safe haven as a base to fight the Taliban. But experts caution that the prospects are poor for …

Calm in a crisis used to be a national characteristic; now we panic at the drop of a hat. A loss of trust in the elite is to blame. An alarming number of Britons seem to have acquired a proclivity to act in a way we used to believe was …