Abdur Rahman Chowdhury

The traditional supporters of the Democratic Party and Clinton loyalists believed that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would make a successful bid for the 2016 presidential election. They held this view while she was leading the State Department. After she left that office, there were intense speculations about her entering the race. True […]

President Barack Obama visited Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories and Jordan from March 20 to 23. This was his first visit abroad after being sworn in as second term president. The objectives of this visit were unclear. The media in the US had stories of sour relations between President Obama and the Israeli Prime Minister […]

On January 21, Barack Obama was sworn in as the president of the US for the second term. Three weeks later, President Obama delivered the State of the Union address at the joint session of Congress. His address was marked by more rhetoric than substance. He focused on domestic issues and promised immigration reform, enforcement […]

The US had enjoyed a period of relative peace and tranquillity during the presidency of Bill Clinton. There were no major armed conflicts in which the US got embroiled. Ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and the genocide in Rwanda however were too brutal to have been ignored. The US joined Europe in bringing the conflicts […]

The tragic incident in Benghazi, Libya that took the lives of the US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three of his colleagues is indeed shocking. Ambassador Stevens stood by the side of the people of Benghazi while the city was under attack from the army of Gaddafi. People of all walks of life have mourned the […]

The assassination of 14 young men and women in San Bernardino, California on December 2, 2015 has sent shockwaves all over the US and beyond. Rizwan Farooq and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, chose to kill the same people with whom Farooq had worked for a long time. Farooq and his wife were invited to a […]

November 2015 has been a turning point for the Syrian crisis. A Russian aircraft with 224 passengers on board was blown up in midair over the Sinai Peninsula. A few days later, a bomb exploded at a public rally in Ankara killing over 100 people and injuring many more. Then, in mid November, bombs exploded […]

The Oslo Accord was developed following protracted negotiations. Consultations between the contact groups began in the Norwegian capital of Oslo in December 1992 then upgraded to a stage where the official representatives participated. The framework, once agreed, was vetted at the foreign ministerial level in Israel and the top leaderships of the Palestine Liberation Organisation […]

The Labour Party in the UK has a traditional penchant towards the middle class, low-income groups and working class people. The party under the leadership of former Prime Minister (PM) Tony Blair pursued that traditional policy. In turn, people elected his party to office for three consecutive terms. Blair served two full terms as the […]