In the four years since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, millions of Syrians have been forced to flee their homes, causing one of the biggest refugee crises...

Ever since ISIS captured land across Iraq and Syria last year, and announced a "new caliphate" across the two nations, other countries in the region have been concerned about...

When the Arab Spring protests swept the Middle East in 2011, Yemen was among the first countries to see a popular uprising against a long-entrenched dictator. The revolution was...

A former head of Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, is not a person you would expect to recommend a more conciliatory approach towards the Palestinians. But that is exactly...

The Turkish government does not have a great record on media freedom. Earlier this year, leaked phone recordings revealed the president (he was prime minister at the time), Recep...

Over the past year, coverage of the conflict between Israel and Palestine has been dominated by news of peace talks falling apart, the battle between Israel and Hamas in...

On Wednesday 10 December, a protest took place in the West Bank village of Turmusiya, near Ramallah. Dozens of foreign and Palestinian activists were demonstrating against land confiscations by...

When Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi was ousted from power in 2013, western powers did not know how to react. They were instinctively suspicious of Morsi, an Islamist politician,...

Since the uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad began three years ago, more than 3.2 million people have fled Syria; a further 7.6 million have been internally displaced. It is...

When ISIS militants swept across Iraq this summer, seizing the key cities of Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah, they appeared to do so with hardly any opposition from the Iraqi...

Observers of the negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme would be forgiven for feeling that history was repeating itself this week. Yet another deadline to reach an agreement to limit...

The popular uprisings that swept across the Middle East in 2011 started in Tunisia. When the long-term President, Zine El-Abedine Ben Ali, was toppled after weeks of popular protests,...

Violence has been ongoing in Jerusalem and other parts of Israel for months now. But sometimes it takes an individual incident of horror to put long-running unrest back at...

When three Al-Jazeera English journalists were jailed in Egypt, it made international headlines. Australian journalist Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed were convicted in...

Last Saturday, Khair Hamdan, a 22-year-old Israeli-Arab construction worker, was shot by Israeli police in a town in Galilee. Officers said initially that Hamdan had attacked them, wielding a...

Since 2008, Gaza has been the scene of three immensely destructive wars. A strict Israeli blockade on materials coming in and out of Gaza means that in each instance,...

Yesterday, Sweden became the biggest western European country to formally recognise a Palestinian state. The new Prime Minister Stefan Lofven ignored strong criticism from Israel to follow through on...

Ever since long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi was ousted from power in 2011, Libya has been mired in chaos. Various militias that fought to topple Gaddafi have continued to operate...

On Monday October 13, British MPs voted to recognise Palestine as a state, by 272 to 12 – a majority of 260. Ministers were told to abstain, and the...

The conflict between Turkey and its Kurdish population has killed 40,000 people over the past three decades. Bringing about peace in this seemingly intractable conflict was a domestic priority...

On Wednesday, the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (CCASG) held an emergency meeting in Jeddah. The subject of this meeting of interior ministers from Gulf...

Over the past year, much has been made of the influx of foreign fighters into the conflict in Syria. According to experts, the Syrian civil war has seen more...

Yemen was the only country affected by the Arab Spring to see a negotiated transfer of power, rather than a prolonged bloody uprising or civil war. However, that does...

Founded in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood is the biggest pan-Arab political and religious movement. A conservative, communitarian organisation made up of various regional affiliates that undertake social work as...

Israel's Unit 8200, known in Hebrew as Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim, is one of the country's most prestigious military intelligence units. Many who serve in it go on to high-flying jobs...

Ever since ISIS militants seized control of Mosul, Iraq's second city, America and its allies in the west have struggled to come up with a coherent strategy to counter...

When the Arab Spring swept across the region in 2011, Yemen was already home to a complex web of factional and regonal tensions. In particular, a group of Zaidi...

The militant group ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) controls a huge swathe of territory straddling Iraq and Syria. The human rights abuses they have committed have...

Intense fighting has been ongoing in Libya for weeks, with violence reaching such a pitch that many embassies have been evacuated. Rival militias – split into two main factions...

This week, violence resumed in Gaza, after the collapse of peace talks between Israel and Palestine in Cairo. Israel's military said it carried out 92 airstrikes on Wednesday alone,...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu was at the forefront of the anti-apartheid movement in his native South Africa. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, and has used his platform...

Since the uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has been mired in chaos. The country is in a state of civil war; violence between rival militias is...