The US claims its goal is to undermine tyranny and spread democracy in the Middle East while its closest ally is the most repressive regime in the region.

The United States has revealed only the barest details of its 400 estimated strikes on alleged militant targets in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia over the past decade.

Furious tribesmen tried to take bodies to the gates of the presidential residence, forcing the government into the rare position of withdrawing its claim that militants had been killed.

The west's intervention has caused a security vacuum and set in motion events that aren't good for Libya, for the United States or for the world.

Jonathan Freedland's bizarre sense of priorities leads him to attack peace campaigners, rather than warmongers carrying out drone attacks in Pakistan, or bombing children in Afghanistan.

Military involvement in Syria could be dangerous for the US, but outsourcing of support for the rebels to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies may be even riskier than direct intervention.

Critics of the Libya intervention warned that dropping bombs in a country and killing civilians, would produce blowback in the form of those who would then want to attack the US.

When Hillary Clinton asks 'How can this happen in a country we helped to liberate?' one is tempted to answer with the Spanish proverb – breed crows and they will pull out your eyes.

Tariq Ali says opposing Assad should not lead to backing a Western intervention and an imposed regime on the Libyan model with a quick-fix election as a PR fig-leaf.

It is hard not to notice the vastly different reactions whenever innocent Americans are killed, as opposed to when Americans are doing the killing of innocents.

The Libyan revolution, fanned and fuelled by bogus 'liberators' David Cameron and Nicholas Sarkozy, is in danger of degenerating into a chaotic, violent free-for-all.

Instead of learning the lessons from the last decade of endless war, Barack Obama, David Cameron and their Nato allies are threatening more war against Syria and Iran.

The Bahraini kingdom is an integral part of the Sunni Arab Gulf dictatorships that are central to safeguarding British and American imperialist interests in the region.

Bashar al-Assad's government faces a resourceful, well-armed and ruthless enemy whose Islamist supporters are receiving help from the West, says Robert Fisk.

No one who has followed the history of Afghanistan or Iraq will be surprised at the West's allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar supplying weapons to the sectarians in the Syrian opposition.

Syria has become the crucible for a number of separate wars, battles for power and influence, for regional resources and access, for strategic location and military expansion.