When the US Secretary of State John Kerry finally got Israelis and Palestinians back around the table for negotiations last July, few were optimistic about the renewed peace talks....

Polio is an entirely preventable disease that can cause paralysis, disability, and even death. It is incurable and highly contagious, but vaccination drives have meant that worldwide, cases have...

America's visa waiver programme allows citizens of specific countries to enter the US for tourism, business, and in transit for up to 90 days without having to obtain a...

Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation, in an escalation of the campaign to stamp out the group across the region. Saudi Arabia's decree...

This week, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, went to Washington to meet with the US president, Barack Obama. He did so under heavy pressure, as...

"Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, where the civil rights of all citizens, Jews and non-Jews alike, are guaranteed," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a...

The second round of peace talks on Syria has drawn to a close, with little evidence of any progress. The talks at Geneva were more than a year in...

This week, the head of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, travelled to Israel and addressed the Knesset. It did not go according to plan. During Schulz's speech, several far-right...

Last month, US President Barack Obama gave his annual State of the Union address. The speech is the president's opportunity to assess the condition of the country, as well...

During the three blood-soaked years of the Syrian civil war, Russia and the US have rarely seen eye to eye on the best way to tackle the crisis. A...

Over the last few months, the US president Barack Obama has remained largely silent on the matter of the Israel-Palestine peace process. His secretary of state, John Kerry, has...

When John Kerry, the US secretary of state, attempted to restart the stalled Israel-Palestine peace process, he set a deadline of April 2014 for an agreement. That deadline is...

In 2011, as mass protests swept the Middle East, Yemen unseated its dictator of 33 years, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Since then, the country has dropped off the western news...

This week, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and nearly every minister in her new coalition landed in Israel for two days of joint cabinet consultations. These annual meetings highlight...

America and Saudi Arabia have been allies since the kingdom was formed in 1932. The relationship is mutually beneficial, giving Riyadh the protection of a powerful western military, and...

Ever since Mohamed Morsi, the democratically elected president of Egypt, was ousted in July 2013, the European Union – along with other western powers – has been uncertain of...

"Journalists are never supposed to become the story," wrote Al-Jazeera correspondent Peter Greste, in a letter smuggled out of Cairo's Tora Prison. Yet that is just what has happened...

This week, the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council held a summit in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. The 54 member states focused on the situation in...

Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are illegal under international law. Even Israel's staunchest allies, such as Britain and the US, acknowledge this fact and make...

When the Arab Spring protests swept Egypt in 2011 and ousted Hosni Mubarak after decades of dictatorial rule, it seemed that the country was on the road to democracy....

Getting all parties to the table at the second round of Syria peace talks, due to start on Wednesday, has been a major negotiation in itself. Russia and the...

How far should artists and academics be held accountable for the actions of their government? The question was powerfully raised when the Israeli national theatre group, Habima, performed at...

Perhaps understandably, the US is secretive about its drone programme. But over the last decade, thousands of unmanned drones have been deployed in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia as part...

The protests in Turkey have dominated international media coverage for several weeks now. Starting with a local protest over plans to bulldoze a park to make way for a...

The 2008 financial crash brought down most of the UK's banks, which were forced to turn to the government for huge cash hand-outs to avoid pulling the rest of...

The BBC is well-used to accusations of bias from many quarters, not least on its coverage of the Israel-Palestine issue, where it appears unable to please anyone. More than...

In July, plans to block European Union money from reaching Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian territory became official. The ban will make institutions and entities in the settlements –...

When Mohammed Morsi was deposed by the Egyptian military on 3 July, the international community was unsure how to react. The US held back from referring to events as...

Israel's settlements – civilian communities built on land occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War – are widely accepted to be illegal under international law. They have been...

Tunisia was the country that kick-started the Arab Spring. In December 2010, a desperate young man set himself on fire, and the ensuing protests led to the fall of...

The Nile holds special significance in Egypt – as the Greek historian Herodotus wrote, "Egypt is the gift of the Nile". The river provides sustenance to the country as...

Things are not looking good for Mohamed Morsi. Egypt's president – the first to be democratically elected in six decades – is floundering after days of mass protests have...