Syria

Trump's U-turn on Iran war has ended Israel's Middle East dream

The failure to subdue Iran has halted, or shattered, a much larger ambition: a project to change the shape of the Middle East, with a reborn and rejuvenated 'greater Israel' at its head

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Israeli MP Ariel Kellner declares Turkey an ‘enemy state’

Occupation

Satellite images reveal line of Israeli bases inside Lebanon and Syria

Israel's genocide in Gaza

How Israel planned Gaza genocide decades ago

Jonathan Cook

Migration

In Berlin’s Open Kitchen, migrants and locals build community one dish at a time

UK Politics

Tony Blair's latest intervention reveals a man who learned nothing from Iraq

Barry Malone

War on Iran

How a regional defence pact could deal the final blow to Israel's violent expansionism

David Hearst

Economy

Turkey advances historic Hejaz railway project with Saudi Arabia deal

Syria after Assad

How Syria’s captagon trade shifted to Sweida after Assad’s fall

Refugees

Greece and Middle East refugees: Between a rock and a hard place

Charalampos Tsitsopoulos

Syria War

Russian parliament gives Putin permission to use airforce in Syria: Reports

Refugees

Why is Catholic Poland so reluctant to help Muslim refugees?

Syria War

Assad: Mass murderer to rational dictator

Ibrahim Halawi

Refugees

Rich countries pledge $1.8bn for UN aid agencies and refugees

Syria War

ANALYSIS: What are the implications of Russia-US cooperation for Syria?

Diplomacy

Assad must step down or face 'military option': Saudi foreign minister

Syria War

Obama says Assad must go, pushes campaign against IS

Syria War

Syria rebels insist no role for Assad despite Western overtures

Syria War

The mysterious assassinations of Syria's Daraa

Refugees

Are Gulf states doing enough for Syrian refugees?

Myriam François

Islamic State

Saudi forces kill two suspected IS members, arrest three