Why Gaza will prove to be a game-changing event
I don’t have any answers, but anybody who thinks there can be anything “permanent” in the disorder thus created is crazy.
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Human Rights group Amnesty International says that over 160,000 civilians in the Eastern Ghouta region near the Syrian capital have been ‘left to die under siege’.
Tens of thousands gather in Bosnia-Herzegovina to commemorate the execution of 8,000 Muslim men and boys 20 years ago. More than 1,000 have yet to be found.
A dark anniversary passes this week in Syria as the country marks four years since the bloody conflict began. We take a look at the timeline of events that brought the country to its knees.
Four years of civil war have plunged the country in to darkness – with new analysis of satellite imagery showing that 83 per cent of lights in the country have gone out.
Tony Blair’s reputation lies in the hands of the Chilcot Inquiry. What will it say about the man who took Britain to war in 2003?
I don’t have any answers, but anybody who thinks there can be anything “permanent” in the disorder thus created is crazy.
One day before Crimeans vote on whether to join Russia, and two weeks after Russian soldiers occupied the region, a confrontation breaks out on the Ukrainian land bordering Crimea.
The French president Francois Hollande announces that an operation to protect civilians in the violence-torn Central African Republic will begin within hours.
At next month’s international conference on Syria, it is unclear which opposition groups will talk to a regime accused of wholesale slaughter.
Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, could meet Barack Obama for the first time this week – however, some fear the United States could demand too much from Iran.
Why have all the powers involved in trying to resolve the Syria crisis – the US, Russia, France and Britain – so singularly failed to exhaust diplomatic avenues to avoid conflict?
Pressure is mounting on the US to act if the UN finds that the “red line” of chemical weapons has been crossed – and President Obama does not want Syria to become his Rwanda.
Britain and the US have been moved to strong words against last week’s suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria, but what should be their objectives if pushed into military action?
With commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan and cuts in the defence budget that will take army numbers down to a 150-year low, could Britain intervene in Syria even if we wanted to?
Talk of all-consuming hell-fire and nuclear war sounds grim. But North Korea’s violent sabre-rattling must be viewed in context.