Libya

US lobby firm secures $2m contract to whitewash image of Libya’s Haftar

Ballard Partners has close ties to the Trump administration, which is reportedly working on a power-sharing deal in Libya bypassing elections

How Iran war may accelerate the fall of US empire

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel attacks Iran

Trump-Netanyahu war aims to entrap Iranians into unconditional submission

Hamid Dabashi

Saudi-UAE Tensions

How Saudi Arabia plans to reshape the Middle East

David Hearst

Saudi Arabia starts Ramadan on Wednesday, but many others to begin a day later

Israel normalisation deals

Majority of Arabs oppose normalisation with Israel, pan-Arab survey finds

Iran-Israel tensions

Trump must defy Netanyahu's push for war on Iran

Dr Ahmed Altuwaijri

Libya: Gaddafi supporters left without rallying figure after Saif al-Islam’s killing

Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, killed in Libya

Italy's 'Regeni amendment' ends military sales to Egypt over student killing

Inside former IS-held city in Libya: Secret prisons, bomb workshops

US journalist survives probable drone strike in Syria

Democrats minimise Clinton role, slam GOP in new Benghazi report

Staying in Europe is better for the UK - and the Middle East

Dr Burhan al-Chalabi

Italy says 7,000 people saved from Mediterranean crossing in two days

Ramadan in France for three homeless Libyan refugees

Arms depot blast kills at least 29 near Libyan capital

US free to blunder in Middle East until it faces worthy adversary, policy expert says

UK considers basing military teams in Libya to stop arms smuggling

Surge in unaccompanied refugee children leaves Italy reeling

Canadian returns home after months in UAE prison accused of arms dealing