A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

was not that of a self-respecting free people. Inevitably a younger, better-educated generation of Palestinians was radicalised. ...

Arafat and acting on Iraqi instructions fired a bul- let into Argov’s head, inflicting critical wounds that left him paralysed. ...

holding the balance. Instead of giving in to their demands, Labour and Likud agreed on a ‘National Unity’ government, shared bet ...

over the peace process. With the help of extreme right-wing religious groups, he was able to form a new government in June, offe ...

disarray. This is what tempted the Iraqis to invade Iran: the conditions seemed ideal for the defeat of an old rival for predomi ...

sapped morale in Teheran, and the enthusiasm of recruits was waning as Iran’s offensives failed to make much further progress. I ...

January 1991, after which date, if Iraq had not by then left Kuwait, ‘all necessary means’ to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait w ...

February, the high-tech armour sliced through and completely outflanked the Iraqi troops. Their number and fighting readiness ha ...

Saddam Hussein meanwhile remained in power in Baghdad, surviving an international economic blockade and the humiliations inflict ...

both sides.Cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis besides banishing death and destruction promises great benefits for bot ...

Civilisation is more than great art and literature. Where basic human rights to life, liberty and justice are not held to be sac ...

Bosnia to declare independence in 1992, knowing that it would lead to bitter conflict between Muslims, Croats and Serbs. Serbia’ ...

put forward more proposals. An early plan tried to preserve the federal structure of Yugoslavia. This had to be abandoned, howev ...

Mostar, in central Bosnia, a long and bitter strug- gle between Croats and Serbs began in 1992; the Serbs were defeated by a tac ...

West and Serbia in Bosnia might force President Yeltsin to defend Serbia and so lead to a wider war. Actually it was absurd to s ...

Serbs. Now it was the turn of Serb refugees to flee eastward. The Bosnian Serbs retaliated. In July General Ratko Mladic, the ru ...

their homes, a provision that was a lost cause from the start. A NATO-led implementation force, IFOR (supported by US units), wa ...

themselves for over 400,000 ethnic compatriots. Daily the sight of struggling men, women and children, fear and exhaustion etche ...

Srebrenika, and Radovan Karadzic have been indicted but remain in hiding protected by the authorities. In 2003, Yugoslavia cease ...

New York, Tuesday morning, 11 September 2001, 8.44 a.m. New Yorkers were hurrying to start the day; the Path Line had emptied it ...