Seif al-Islam captured in the Sahara
Last of the Gaddafi clan was found in the Libyan desert near Ubari, which I visited in 2004
Hope or acquiescence in Myanmar?
Aung San Suu Kyi returns to politics, but is she a challenge to the junta or a cover?
Dreamy visions of Gaddafi at the London Review of Books
Hugh Roberts slams NATO for not negotiating with a man who vowed to fight to the last drop of blood
Video of the Egyptian army running over civilians with APCs
But the Egyptian army rules the country, so it is the protesters who face military trials
On the Overblown Islamist Threat
Breathe deeply right-wingers: even the former Jordanian foreign minister doesn’t fear the Islamists
On Arab intellectuals during the revolution
Really, did anyone need an intellectual to tell them what the revolution was about?
The Yemeni government kills its children
After months of peaceful protests, the Yemeni government heads down the path of Libya and Syria
Syria jumps the shark
Syrian TV says Al Jazeera is building movie sets of Syrian cities to film fake rebel victories
A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne
The best book about the 9/11 attacks and war in Iraq, though it is about France in 1950s Algeria
Are American conservatives the new French?
Libya suggests that conservatives want chest-beating glory more than they want success
The Gaddafi family photo album
Gaddafi made himself a celebrity. Is that why the Times decided to publish his stolen family album?
Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh can see!
It’s a miracle! How else to explain his remarkable recovery in a Saudi hospital?
Gaddafi’s mercenaries reveal all
They are the ‘smart money’ in the stockmarket battlefield and started to flee two weeks ago
Mabrouk, ya Seif al-Islam!
Gaddafi’s son shows up in the night. Did he accidentally reveal where his father is hiding?
They are dancing in Tripoli
Suddenly, the rebels have taken the heart of Libya’s capital and Gaddafi’s end is near
Into the darkness of the New York Times comments section
The central challenge for a superpower: strong views, little knowledge, limitless power to intervene
Is this really Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh?
And what was he thinking he’d gain from appearing on TV like this?
President Ali Abdullah Saleh finally leaves Yemen
It is a shame for Saleh, and Yemen, that it took violence to get him out
Mubarak on trial: should the past be prosecuted?
Forgetting the past is unacceptable, but so too is shelving it through superficial justice