Hashem is a columnist for Al-Monitor. He is an Arab journalist serving as Al Mayadeen news network's chief correspondent. Until March 2012, he was Al Jazeera's war correspondent, and prior to that he was a senior journalist at the BBC. He has written for several Arab newspapers, including the Lebanese dail

ton has stationed heavy military equipment in the newer NATO member states in Eastern Europe that were once part of the Soviet sphere of influence. Al Jazeera's Daniel Lak, reporting from Washington, said that "someone at the Pentagon off the record has confirmed to Al Jazeera that this is indeed an active p

y still-unresolved conflicts that the Arab Spring has also unleashed. "This isn't justice," Mustafa Haid, 32, a Syrian activist, said as he watched Al Jazeera's broadcast in a Beirut office. Colonel Qaddafi should have been put on trial, his crimes investigated, Libya reconciled to trust in the law, he said