Enemies Cameron and Blair meet to talk peace (in the Middle East)
They were once the political world’s greatest rivals. Now, Tony Blair and David Cameron are to join the negotiating table for a different kind of peace.
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Distressing CCTV footage of the fatal shooting of two Palestinian boys during a protest is released by a human rights group, which accuses troops of “unlawful killing”. Israel is investigating.
Israel decides to suspend peace talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after Wednesday’s announcement of a unity deal between Hamas and Fatah.
With the eyes of the world on Ukraine, an escalated campaign of barrel bombings by the regime of Bashar al-Assad has led to the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children in Syria.
They were once the political world’s greatest rivals. Now, Tony Blair and David Cameron are to join the negotiating table for a different kind of peace.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, distribute food parcels to 18,000 isolated civilians in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus.
Gaza’s kung-fu champion Arab Dola lies, back broken, in his bed – a literal representation of the paralysing poverty suffered by hundreds of thousands in the area.
Three Korean tourists and their Egyptian driver die in an explosion in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus is awash with suffering. Amid the despair, a group of friends found a piano and have uploaded their songs of resilience to the internet.
Syria’s regime and opposition forces evacuate hundreds of refugees from the Yarmouk camp on the outskirts of Damascus.
Scarlett Johansson quits her role as ambassador for Oxfam after coming under huge criticism for supporting the company SodaStream, that operates in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
Thousands dead, millions displaced, and daily atrocities – the Geneva II talks to find peace in Syria are aimed at finding a crucial solution, but the challenges seem insurmountable.
Britain will donate another £100m in humanitarian aid to Syria, Justine Greening says, but on the ground intense fighting is preventing aid from reaching the sick and starving.
Joe Biden and Tony Blair praise Israel’s former prime minister Ariel Sharon for his determination at his state funeral on Monday.
Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon’s body lies in state outside parliament in Jerusalem, where thousands of Israelis wait to bid farewell to the controversial statesman.
Former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon has died, aged 85, after spending the last eight years in a coma. International Editor Lindsey Hilsum looks back at the life of the man nicknamed “the bulldozer”.