Syria

Syria after Assad

Syrian court issues first sentences over 2025 Alawite massacres

Two Assad loyalists were sentenced to death and life imprisonment, while a government soldier received a 20-year prison term

In Syria's Daraa, water is life - and today the land is parched

Israel names new envoy to Turkey amid tensions over Gaza and Syria

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Banning trade with illegal Israeli settlements is a start, but Labour must not stop there

Nadia Whittome

Syria after Assad

Palestinian Islamic Jihad co-founder threatened with 'unlawful' deportation from Syria

Syria after Assad

Israel admits it assassinated senior Assad official in Syria in 2008

Israel warned Turkey against moving south in Syria. It did so anyway

Britain's 'small boats' obsession misses the point on migration

Barry Malone

Syria after Assad

Syria: The Druze must refuse being “melted” into Zionism

Wesam Sharaf

Turkey deports hundreds of Syrian refugees to war-torn Idlib province

Air strikes on northwest Syria kill dozens, activists say

Citizen journalist among 11 civilians killed by air raids in northwest Syria

A year in exile, Daraa's displaced watch hometowns descend into disorder

Syria war: Why did Assad restructure the military-security apparatus?

Paul Khalifeh

Art and photography

Four Yemeni artists you need to know about

Iran tanker crisis: Syria sanctions are hurting the people, not Assad

Jonathan Steele

Iraq returns children of IS foreign fighters to Russia

The Bishop of Truro has not told the full truth about Christians in the Middle East

Peter Oborne

The best YA books: 10 Middle East authors worth reading

Germany must repatriate wife and children of suspected IS fighter, court rules

Battle for Idlib: Scores of fighters reported killed in fight for hilltop village