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Approaching from the city across its clogged highways, Baghdad seemed like no other Arab city I have visited as a reporter. The new highways, the Abunawas Boulevard and the Tigris combine to form a picturesque scene. Twelve years of sanctions have tarnished a once refined, glamorous, prosperous city. However, it still struggles to retain its reputation through proud and defiant looks of its residents.

U.S. envoy William Burns paid a visit to the region in a bid to make a case for the "road map" for achieving peace and establishing a Palestinian state by 2005.

Ramadan is the most sacrosanct month for over one billion Muslims throughout the world.

The September 11 attacks prompted the United States government to launch a public relations campaign of a type never seen before.

After weeks of debates and divisions, which have set an unprecedented exodus from his party, and have threatened to wreck the country, ailing Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit has agreed to hold the elections in November.

My journey to Kabul in December after a long stay in New York and Washington DC covering the September 11 attacks, provided me with a first hand experience of the life of the Afghan people. By then the city was chaotic and the streets eerily deserted. Danger was in the air.

Africa has a new body that will define its future. After 38 years, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) will be replaced by the African Union (AU) heralding a new era in the black continent wrought by centuries of slavery, colonialism, civil wars and diseases.

When will the turmoil in the Middle East finally come to an end? No one knows.

If Leila is one of the most widespread female names in the Arab world, there is an explanation for that. Leila was the beloved of Qais the Errant. One of the greatest Arab poets ever, he met her while she was a teenager  and they fell madly in love.

After Saddam's ouster, the liars were exposed

The feuds between the USA and its transatlantic allies have been fomenting anti-European sentiments in America and anti-American sentiments in Europe.

The brothers' bodies case