Sheikh Tamim, 33, takes over in world’s richest country
The truth of the matter is that the Qatari succession is opaque, and no-one outside the royal family has a clear idea of what this transition means.
Syria’s war is becoming the defining event for a generation of Muslims. But for some it is a sign that the end of the world has begun. Warning: contains scenes that some may find upsetting.
Polls suggest both US Republicans and Democrats are united against any American action against Syria. Jon Snow talks to Democrat strategist Richard Fowler and Republican pollster, Kristen Soltis.
As Barack Obama says he is “confident” congress will vote in favour of military action in Syria, Channel 4 News explores the relationships between Syria, her Middle Eastern neighbours, and the west.
Explore the map and click to watch key Channel 4 News reports from Syria’s war.
“Cowardly”, “shocking” and “inhuman”: global powers condemn a wave of car bomb attacks that sources say killed nearly 80 people in Iraq on Saturday.
As Muslims across the world celebrate Eid, a religious holiday of ‘unity’, Iraq is once against bloodied by car bomb attacks in Shi-ite areas, which kill at least 60.
Syria President Bashar al-Assad’s forces launch a major offensive against Homs, in a bid to flush rebel fighters out of the country’s third-largest city.
The truth of the matter is that the Qatari succession is opaque, and no-one outside the royal family has a clear idea of what this transition means.
Countries justify their involvement in conflict by claiming they are fighting a “just war”. But the moral struggle in Syria may be morphing into a power play between the west and Russia.
Jonathan Rugman reports from a Hassan Nasrallah rally in Beirut, where Hezbollah supporters seem to regard the conflict across the border in Syria as an existential fight for their own survival.
In this Channel 4 News exclusive, British and other western jihadi fighters are shown in Syria as never before – fighting and killing, shopping and preparing for a wedding. Inigo Gilmore reports.
What drove the university-educated Londoner Ibrahim al-Mazwagi to fight and die in Syria’s civil war? What drove him to jihad and how many others are there like him in the UK?
As Iran goes to the polls on Friday, the country’s tightly controlled campaign seems to centre on a race between a conservative and a claimed “reformer” – but will the winner really make a difference?
As new figures show 93,000 have died in Syria’s bloody civil war, how can ever-growing Sunni-Shia tensions be stopped to avoid dragging neighbouring Lebanon in the worsening sectarian conflict?
With Syria’s civil war seen by many as a Sunni-Shia conflict, Jon Snow travels to the holy city of Qom in Iran to find out what part religious rivalry plays in Syria’s ever-worsening conflict.