Gaza conflict: an Israeli soldier’s question
“Why the world hate Israel?” the soldier whispered. There was genuine confusion in his eyes. He whispered again: “Why the world hate us?”
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“Why the world hate Israel?” the soldier whispered. There was genuine confusion in his eyes. He whispered again: “Why the world hate us?”
Drones and rockets have shaped much of the aerial activity in the conflict between Hamas and Israel. But there is a new theatre of war emerging underground.
Tony Blair’s former spin doctor denies taking money from the Sisi regime, but insists the west must engage with Egypt.
Exactly 24 hours after three Al Jazeera journalists were jailed in Egypt for terror related charges, hundreds of colleagues have staged a silent protest in their support.
Three Al Jazeera journalists – on trial accused of aiding members of a “terrorist organisation” – are sentenced to seven years in prison by an Egyptian court.
Bad-tempered letters between Home Secretary and Education Secretary speak more of clashing ambitions than ideological differences.
The trial of Al Jazeera journalists puts Cairo’s crackdown on the media in the spotlight – but for Egyptian journalists a climate of fear has been pervasive since the military took control last June.
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.
Egypt’s political roadmap is altered so that the president will be elected before parliament is. It hastens the likely election of army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as head of state.
Twelve people are killed in Cairo, security sources say, as Egypt marks the third anniversary of the revolution that led to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
Security concerns prevail on the final day of Egypt’s referendum on a new constitution, after at least 11 people were killed in clashes with police.
As Egypt detains three Al-Jazeera journalists, a British correspondent based in Cairo tells Channel 4 News that reporting from the region has become “darker and more complicated”.
Paul Mason speaks to the conspiracy theorists about the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy, and meets the students who wish the past would stop haunting American politics.
US secretary of state John Kerry meets his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo for “detailed and frank” talks with a “vital partner” that Washington says it is committed to working with.