Today’s anti-IS meeting is fantasy masquerading as policy
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.
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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British nationals in Yemen are told to leave the country “immediately” as British diplomats are withdrawn and embassy operations shut down.
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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.
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.
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.
In the crucial battleground of Kobani, in northern Syria, reports say Kurdish fighters now control of 80 per cent of the city – but is this a sign the tide is turning against the Islamic State group?
The arrival of the first ship of the new year brought tears of joy to its tired and famished human cargo. But with the Ezadeen comes a serious and seemingly intractable problem for the EU.
Bashar Assad makes a rare visit to the front line, activists light candles in Aleppo and new years cakes are baked in Sheikh Maksoud – this is how 2015 was ushered in war-torn Syria.
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Part of the Elgin Marbles is unveiled at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, after a secret journey from Britain, despite calls from Greece for it to be returned.
Two British men who travelled to Syria to join rebel fighters have been jailed for 12 years and 8 months.