Opinion

Since Al Jazeera’s launch in 1996 its slogan has been “the opinion and the other opinion.” Its objective of telling both sides of the story has won over many audiences, …

Marwan had trouble sitting down during our interview. He had bruises all over his body and bandages on his head from the beating security officers subjected him to during his …

Eight years have passed since the United States-led invasion ended Saddam Hussein’s totalitarian reign and promised Iraq a democratically elected alternative respectful of its citizens’ rights. Today, Iraqis are still …

    Until late February Syria had remained, much to the bewilderment of headline-hungry newspaper editors, immune to revolutionary revolt. When Tunisian-inspired unrest began rippling across the region, the regime …

  During the rain and overcast last month, one would have been forgiven for thinking the masses of Lebanese reciting slogans skyward about independence, resistance, justice, arms, tribunals, truth and …

    The massacre the Yemeni regime committed against civilian protesters on March 18 was horrific, a true act of tyranny by President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Gunmen opened fire from …

In the initial days of protests in Daraa, on March 13 and 14, several friends and I began to discuss a strategy for how we could contribute to the cause. …

    These are not the easiest of days for Jordan‘s King Abdullah II. The “Arab Spring” has reached Amman and is putting his throne under pressure from two sides. …

The stakes are growing in the looming confrontation between Lebanon and Israel over the suspected existence of massive fossil fuel deposits in the eastern Mediterranean. The delight in Israel at …

Three days after an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale critically damaged Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP), the president of South Korea and the crown prince of …