Middle East

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon calls on Israel to exercise “maximum restraint” to avoid further bloodshed in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

The tweet that launched an Israeli attack on Gaza was followed by a YouTube film of military operations and a social media campaign. Channel 4 News looks at how the war is being waged online.

With Israel’s general election due in January, and the Palestinian Authority’s application for UN recognition, the assassination of Hamas’s military chief did not happen in isolation.

Israeli aircraft attack targets in Gaza following rocket strikes against Tel Aviv carried out by Islamist militants.

The head of the military wing of Hamas dies in a targeted strike by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, because of his “decade-long terrorist activity”.

When the victory celebrations are over, the new US president will face a growing pile of issues to tackle in his foreign policy in-tray. Channel 4 News looks at those likely to be top of the list.

David Cameron is in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the start of a three-day trade visit to the Middle East aimed at securing major UK arms deals with states in the region.

As one of the earliest countries to experience revolution in the Arab Spring, and one of the first to move towards stability, Egypt’s first leader post-Mubarak has been in the international spotlight.

With close ties to Iran and Lebanon, and with its physical proximity to regional powers like Egypt and Turkey, Syria is at the heart of a complex set of relations in the Middle East.

Will Israel attack Iran? ‘Wait and see an ‘Israeli official in New York tells Channel 4’s Jonathan Rugman.

An award-winning Japanese journalist dies after a gunfight between Syrian forces and rebels in Aleppo while she was travelling with the Free Syrian Army.

Thousands of Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square to support President Mohamed Morsi’s decision to replace his defence minister and army chief while ordering several senior generals to retire.

Helicopter gunships continue to bombard Aleppo in an effort to regain control of Syria’s second city from rebel fighters. But rebels remain confident after fighting off government attacks.

World powers have agreed on a power transition plan for strife-hit Syria, with a unity government to include members of the present government and opposition, international envoy Kofi Annan said.

The consequences of the 2011 Arab uprisings are still being felt. Some countries, like Egypt, appear to be moving towards a democratic settlement, while others, like Syria, are mired in civil war.