How British jihadists are causing mayhem in Syria
MICHAEL BURLEIGH: All it takes is a cheap air ticket to Turkey, and then a ride over the border into northern Syria. That is the route being taken by British-based jihadists who are joining the fight...
View ArticleIn Pakistan, an illiterate child has been jailed for unknowingly burning the...
MICHAEL BURLEIGH: Rimsha Masih, a young girl with Down's Syndrome, is currently locked in an insalubrious adult jail.
View ArticleSyria's chemical munitions
MICHAEL BURLEIGH: It is the spiral of violence inside Syria and the inability of the major powers to agree to halt it, that is the real problem, rather than the perennial red herring of WMD, which...
View ArticleWhy I'm convinced Israel will bomb Iran in weeks: Netanyahu is running out...
MICHAEL BURLEIGH: I am increasingly convinced that nothing will stop Israel. Shortly before the U.S. elections, and most likely in October, I believe Israel will launch air strikes on Iran.
View ArticleWhat makes a doctor become a terrorist?
MICHAEL BURLEIGH: An NHS medic has been found fighting with Islamic fanatics in Syria. He's just the latest in a deeply disturbing trend.
View ArticleAlgerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed master of terror behind...
Veteran jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar is behind the heavily-armed Islamist group which stormed the gas facility in eastern Algeria. His nickname is The Uncatchable, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
View ArticleHow typical of the Left to idolise a despot who gloried in attacking America...
The Venezuelan people have been whipped into hysteria by the propaganda of the sinister - and aggressively anti-American - political machine Chavez left behind as his legacy, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
View ArticleKim Jong Un: North Korea's posturing boy despot who could blunder into...
The fact is that dumpy little Kim Jong-un could plunge the world into the biggest crisis since 1962, when Russian engineers on Cuba started building nuclear missiles and almost plunged the world into...
View ArticleHorrific - but sending troops to Syria would be a catastrophe
MICHAEL BURLEIGH: Cameron’s government is once again full of moralising outrage, raising fears that it might soon be willing to send our war-weary forces into yet another hopeless conflict in the...
View ArticleMICHAEL BURLEIGH: Tyranny, torture and a coup that should chill naive...
After this dramatic coup in Egypt, what is to stop the army and angry public from rudely ejecting the next democratically elected leader in Egypt if one ever takes office? Asks MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
View ArticleNigeria, a country so corrupt it would be better to burn our aid money
MICHAEL BURLEIGH: By the end of its term of office, the British Government will have handed over £1 billion in aid to Nigeria.Given the appalling levels of corruption in that nation, this largesse is...
View ArticleNightmare of terrorists with bombs surgically implanted INSIDE their bodies
MICHAEL BURLEIGH: We are in the age of the human bomb. This week, U.S. intelligence experts admitted that Al Qaeda’s master bomb maker Ibrahim al-Asirir has devised a way of concealing explosives...
View ArticleMICHAEL BURLEIGH: Caught in the crossfire of an ever dirtier war
The harrowing images of hundreds of dead children, victims of what rebels claim was a poison gas attack by Assad’s government, will test the diplomatic patience of the West to the limit.
View ArticleMICHAEL BURLEIGH: Stalin's gulags and his Left wing British apologists
In Hampstead parlours, intellectual apologists for Stalin like Ralph Miliband’s great friend Eric Hobsbawm loved talking in abstractions as millions died in horror.
View ArticleWhy the old foe Iran is suddenly a crucial ally, by MICHAEL BURLEIGH
David Cameron is now making entreaties to the enemy and planning to meet Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani at the UN General Assembly in New York this week.
View ArticlePrejudice, hatred and why Turkey won't do anything about the barbarians on...
MICHAEL BURLEIGH looks at why Turkey views the prospect of IS’s dreaded black banner fluttering over a town near its border with such apparent equanimity.
View ArticleWas Charlie Hebdo massacre Al-Qaeda's bid to re-establish itself after being...
The manner of yesterday's terrorist attack suggests that Al Qaeda feels eclipsed by ISIS and was determined to put itself back in the international spotlight with an act of mass murder.
View ArticleSlaughter on the shores of the Med... so close to resorts loved by Britons
They were marched along the pristine sands of the beach to the scene of their murder, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
View ArticleWe must reclaim Europe's borders, by MICHAEL BURLEIGH
The deaths of up to 1,000 EU-bound migrants at the weekend has focused minds on the appalling human tragedy unfolding in the Mediterranean, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
View ArticleCan ANYONE stop ISIS tearing the Middle East apart?
The U.S has conducted 20 air strikes around Ramadi in the past few days, But it is clear their £430m F-22 Raptor fighters do not have the capability to stop the jihadis' advance, writes MICHAEL...
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