President Donald Trump, who is refusing to concede election defeat, injected new volatility by firing his defense secretary.
Comment: Politifact found that the president has been truthful only 31 percent of the time, writes Imad K. Harb.
Can a headless chicken continue to lead the world?
Comment: Politics in the United States is in a state of unprecedented chaos and confusion not two months into the presidency of Donald Trump, Imad Harb writes.
Comment: Trump's political reality show is about to be cancelled, but in quiet corners of America, extremists of a different variety continue to ...
Comment: America is well-placed to adjust and reinvent itself, in part thanks to its diverse population. Refusing to do so would herald cultural ...
Rubio, Cruz attack Trump in GOP debate
Republican presidential hopefuls Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz used Thursday's GOP debate to attack billionaire front runner Donald Trump in a bid to stop his lead.
US Republicans slam Obama over Iran deal
A historic US-Iran nuclear deal to end sanctions on Tehran has been met with scorn and criticism from some sections of the Republican Party in ...
American Muslims react to GOP hate-fest
Blog: The fifth debate for Republican presidential candidates on Tuesday evening in Las Vegas was a competition of fear-mongering and hate ...
National security centre stage at GOP presidential debate
National security dominated the fifth Republican presidential debate with candidates competing to look tough on terrorism and making highly ...
Trump and Cruz to clash in GOP debate
Republican front-runner Donald Trump is set to clash with rising star Ted Cruz in Tuesday's Republican presidential debate, while the event ...
Donald Trump denies planning Jordan trip
The Republican presidential candidate has rejected reports that he planned to visit the majority-Muslim kingdom, as he faces calls to be banned ...
Trump's xenophobia is a symptom of America's toxic politics
Donald Trump's xenophobic and racist utterings about immigrants, Muslims and others should come as no surprise given the poisonous political ...
Republican frontrunners show their ignorance
Comment: When it comes to the Middle East, neither Trump nor Carson are in any way capable. But one will be fighting for the US ...
Syrian refugees at centre of ill-tempered American political dispute
Syrian refugees are forced into the political spotlight in the United States election season, as Republicans are determined to stop President ...
Republicans intensify opposition to Syrian refugees after Paris attacks
Opposition politicians in the United States have intensified their opposition to letting thousands of Syrian refugees come to the US in the wake ...
Egypt antiquities officials scoff at Carson pyramid claims
Egyptian antiquities officials have disputed claims by US Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson that Egypt's ancient pyramids were not built as pharaonic tombs but used to store grain.
Ben Carson says pyramids were grain silos not tombs
US Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has stood by remarks he made in a 1998 speech that the Great Pyramids of Giza ...
Here's another Bush setting Republican Middle East policy
Comment: Even if he loses the race to the White House, Jeb Bush's ideas for a messianic US role in the region chime strongly with party donors, ...
Bernie Sanders embraces Islamophobia victim: 'We must stand together'
Blog: US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders spoke on a public stage with an American Muslim student about her experiences of politicians' ...
US Muslims angry at new wave of Islamophobia
American Muslims reacted with anger to what many see as a growing wave of Islamophobia fuelled by the Republican Party’s most popular ...
Muslim Americans welcome first New York Eid school holiday
For the first time, more than 1,800 public schools in New York will close for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, marking a milestone in the ...
'No Muslim should be president' says US presidential candidate
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has said that a Muslim should not be the president of the United States, days ...