At first, the French viewed the U.S. presidential election with delight: It was a quintessentially American sitcom, reality television let loose into the realm of reality. But then delight became shock, and shock became horror. In recent months, François , France’s president, has been...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- In the building of regime military operations in Assad outskirt in Aleppo, a Syrian resistance fighter who stormed the builiding opened a group of drawers of an office beside a bed, and he saw what would not cross anyone’s mind. He found identification documents including...

French authorities were on Monday clearing the last shacks in the Calais "Jungle", signalling the end of the notorious camp, as attention turned to the thousands of migrants sleeping rough in Paris. The authorities have said that nothing will be left of the notorious Jungle, home to around...

(Independent) Moonscape. Desert. Blitz. The past 100 years of war have turned all our words into clichés. I rage at every reference to the Second World War – because it’s over, because Hitler is dead, because we won and because we shouldn’t dig up old graves to frighten future...