Libya: is it better to leave dictators in their place?
The disaster of Libya provided much of the reason for not aiding Syrians who rose against dictatorship in 2012. But is the best course of action to do nothing?
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The disaster of Libya provided much of the reason for not aiding Syrians who rose against dictatorship in 2012. But is the best course of action to do nothing?
Egypt’s Ambassador to Britain, Nasser Kamel, tells Channel 4 News airstrikes on Libya marks a “new beginning” against Islamic State, while the former Nato chief says “boots are needed on the ground.”
The man believed to have carried out attacks at a Copenhagen cafe and synagogue, killing two people, is shot after firing at officers.
Danish police say one civilian died after dozens of bullets were sprayed at a Copenhagen cafe where an artist who published pictures of the prophet Mohammed was attending a meeting.
Sudan’s government has “shamefully” denied the UN access to investigate an alleged mass rape by Sudanese soldiers against hundreds of women, the US says.
British nationals in Yemen are told to leave the country “immediately” as British diplomats are withdrawn and embassy operations shut down.
With Vladimir Putin meeting Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande in Moscow to discuss the Ukraine conflict, what is driving the Russian president, what is he seeking, and will he get it?
As the civil war in Syria nears its fourth bloody year, the country’s refugee crisis shows no signs of slowing. More than half of the country’s pre-war population is estimated to have been displaced.
A day of bloodshed on Israel’s border with Lebanon and Syria leaves two Israeli soldiers and one UN peacekeeper dead and raises fears of a conflict between the IDF and Hezbollah.
Nearly 500 miners are trapped underground after a shell hit an electric substation near the site in east Ukraine, following an escalation in violence at the weekend.
Exclusive: two British men who have returned from the Syria conflict say they went to the Middle East on a humanitarian mission “against a brutal regime” – and insist they are not terrorists.
With Iraq riven by sectarianism and corruption, don’t expect any public statements from today’s London meeting of anti-IS nations to bear much relationship to reality on the ground.
Hezbollah supporters turned out in force in Lebanon for the funerals of militants killed in a suspected Israeli drone strike.
Lebanon’s military storm the country’s biggest prison, which they say has become an “operations room” for the Islamic State group, as fears increase of the terror group’s presence at the border.
The global chemical weapons watchdog unearths “compelling eyewitness evidence” of the use of chlorine weapons by the Syrian regime.