CAIRO -- A request by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for an arrest warrant to be issued against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has left Egypt, its northern neighbor, in a quandary, prompting the Cairo leadership to reiterate that Bashir's arrest on war crimes charges should be delayed.

The crimes committed against innocent people in Darfur represent a shameful episode in the history of Sudan and its neighbors, including Chad, which has played a dubious role in sustaining the seething conflict. Equally disgraceful is the politicizing of the bloody conflict in ways that will ensure its continuation.

DUBAI, UAE -- Few issues have exercised me as much as the conflict in Darfur has. One hates to blow one's trumpet, but I have the dubious distinction of being the first journalist from the Middle East to break the silence on the genocide in Sudan.

AMMAN -- When an Arab becomes the first incumbent head-of-state wanted for war crimes and genocide by the International Criminal Court, it is bound to have political implications and raise concerns about hidden political agendas that may underlie legal allegations.

A major Hollywood studio and top US screen star unveil a new documentary addressing the bloody conflict that has raged, without resolution, for four years in in Sudan's Darfur region.

The prosecutor of the world's first permanent war crimes court will review a dossier containing allegations of human rights abuses by British troops in Iraq.

The swearing in of Luis Moreno-Ocampo as chief prosecutor on Monday means the newly established permanent war crimes court that can now start considering complaints it has received since July 2002.