The last few weeks have seen a softening of rhetoric between the leaders of Iran and the USA. The new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has been on something of...

Ever since whistle-blower Edward Snowden leaked documents pertaining to the US National Security Agency's (NSA) programme of mass surveillance, the revelations and diplomatic rifts just keep coming. Last week,...

Most regional, domestic, and international powers agree that there is no military solution to the conflict in Syria – but the path to peace talks has been far from...

Over the last few years, Egypt has been home to repeated political turmoil. During the Arab Spring revolution in 2011, long-time military dictator Hosni Mubarak was toppled. Subsequent elections...

The international arms trade is impenetrable at best. Deals between different companies and governments are rarely widely reported outside the specialised business press, and the details of such deals...

The question of how to secure peace between Israel and Palestine, and what international powers do to secure it has vexed successive generations of politicians and diplomats. In recent...

The conflict in Syria is nothing if not complicated. Over the course of the conflict, which has now raged for two and a half years, the opposition to President...

For the first time in twenty years, Hebrew is on the curriculum in Hamas-run schools in the Gaza Strip. Around 750 ninth-grade students are learning the language of Israel,...

The last week has seen a major push for military action in Syria from the UK and US governments. The impetus for western involvement in the two-year civil war...

Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip has been a huge point of contention since it began in 2007. The blockade covers land, sea, and air, and is supported by...

I don't know how to feel. Part of me is relieved that I made it back alive, but I feel guilty that my relatives and my people are dying....

Journalism in Syria is no easy task. With access for foreign journalists becoming increasingly difficult, much of the newsgathering falls to local reporters and citizen journalists – but the...

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the entrance of a mosque in the village of Deir Istiya, in the occupied West Bank, was set on fire. The walls...