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What are the priorities for Iran’s new president?
With Iran’s new president set to be inaugurated on Sunday, how will he tackle a list of woes including ever-present sanctions and fears over its nuclear aspirations?
With Iran’s new president set to be inaugurated on Sunday, how will he tackle a list of woes including ever-present sanctions and fears over its nuclear aspirations?
UN experts will travel to Syria as soon as possible to investigate chemical weapons attacks in three locations following months of negotiations with Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Extreme violence at the weekend in which 83 died, calls for a mass march and now a meeting between the ousted former president and a key EU figure – what is happening in Egypt and what is next?
US Secretary of State John Kerry says “reasonable compromises” will be the keystone of making planned peace talks between Israel and Palestine successful.
Two people have been killed and at least 19 injured as rival protesters clash in Egypt’s second city, Alexandria. Tens of thousands are on the streets of the capital, Cairo.
Gunmen shoot dead Mohammed Brahmi, the leader of a leftist Tunisian opposition party, in the capital Tunis. It is the year’s second political assassination in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
Egypt is no exception to the rule that revolutions do not end happily ever after, says historian Niall Ferguson. And he warns there are now huge incentives for the Muslim Brotherhood to use violence.
Egyptian people have “had enough of division” and must be “one body” in order to build a democratic nation, Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour tells Channel 4 News in his first interview.
How the Taliban’s flag has turned ‘peace talks in Doha’ from diplomatic triumph to an egg-on-your-face moment for Barack Obama.
Tuesday’s attack on the US airbase Bagram, which killed four American troops, conforms to what Taliban spokesmen said would happen, announcing their ‘spring offensive’ back in April.
Spin is what it is all about when it comes to Syria. If the regime is only using chemical weapons on a “small scale”, why has the US “red line” on taking action now been crossed?
At the heart of Syria’s bloody civil war is one of the oldest religious divide in history – that between Sunni and Shia Muslims. But what are the differences between them?
The fact that Nick Griffin has travelled to Syria on a fact-finding mission may surprise some, but this is not the first time the BNP leader has traveled to the Middle East.
A new poll on public perceptions in the UK of the Iraq war is so staggeringly at odds with reality as to leave this journalist speechless.
EXCLUSIVE: Hamas has not betrayed the Assad regime by relocating from Syria to Qatar and opposes foreign intervention in Syria, says Khaled Meshaal.