'The low status of women in Syria and other Arab nations — as well as the cultural relativism practised by the agencies mandated to protect them — has resulted in abuse and violence'

Radical Islam is growing in Muslim countries that openly persecute their religious minorities. The West has so far turned a blind eye

Unapologetic terrorist or revolutionary? Menachem Begin is rightly de-demonised, but not whitewashed, in Avi Shilon's new biography

When the dust settles in Damascus, the country will have been torn apart and, as in Yugoslavia, the process will be irreversible