The foreign ministry of Syria has claimed the government was not responsible for the deaths of two Western journalists and around 20 other people in t...
William Hague today voiced "frustration" at the continuing bloodshed in Syria, but played down the prospect of any foreign military intervention. B...
John Witherow, Marie Colvin's editor, recently said this of her: "She was much more than a war reporter. She was a woman with a tremendous joie de vivre, full of humour and mischief and surrounded by a large circle of friends, all of whom feared the consequences of her bravery." I was one of those friends, who never ceased to worry about what might one day happen to her.
The trouble is that Putin's attachment to democracy is largely based on him winning elections, never losing them.
It is difficult not to see the looming crisis on Iran through any other optics other than our experience in Iraq. So much of the commentary on the left is falling into this trap.
Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed after defying an order to leave the besieged Syrian city of Homs because she wanted to finish "one mor...
David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch have led the tributes to Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin after she was killed in an artillery attack on the Syri...
A citizen journalist in the embattled city of Homs has described the moment that the sky rained with shells and destroyed a makeshift media centre, ki...
Syria could have deliberately targeted Western journalists, according to reports in The Daily Telegraph. Syrian authorities said they were unaware ...
Anyone who worked with or met Marie Colvin, or consumed her extraordinary output knew she was more than just a great journalist. She was also a huge personality bursting with compassion for the suffering that her reporting showed us
Full statement: I want to report with great shock the sad news of the death of Marie Colvin in Syria today. We have reliable reports that Marie was...
William Hague has paid tribute to murdered Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin saying he is "deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic news." He s...
Russia has said it will support calls by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to hold daily two-hour cease-fires in Syria to help with ...
Two journalists and seven local activists have been killed after a makeshift media centre was shelled in the Syrian city of Homs. The reporters wer...
The financial sector is preoccupied with the potential break-up of the eurozone. Yet the dramatic developments in the Middle East and North Africa (together called MENA) could lead to turmoil in the markets.
We simply need to give the Syrian people the tools, support and encouragement they need to do the job themselves. Now is the time to step up to our responsibilities.
Iran has said it will act preemptively against its enemies if it feels its interests are threatened, according to national media. In a thinly-veile...
Syrian activists have said they will "fight until the last person" as columns of tanks and armoured vehicles prepared to mount a ground assault on the...
This unique dualism of a Middle Eastern childhood, and an American identity, is something Dr Rogan strives to incorporate in his writing. Yet it is his perspective on Arab history that serves most to surprise.
Djibouti is home to a large French military base. It is also home to an expanding multi-agency US base, 'Camp Lemonnier', about to undergo its next phase of development in the wake of events in Iran, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
There was no Arab Spring - nor is there necessarily an Islamist Winter. Ongoing events in Syria, and recently across the Middle East, are the last in a long historic process of protest, opposition and revolution. But the outcome will not be democracy as we know it in the West.
Egypt has recalled its envoy from Syria as the government continues a campaign of violence against civilians who oppose President Bashar al-Assad's ru...
Iranian warships have entered the Suez canal, via the Mediterranean sea, for the second time since the revolution of 1979. The Shahid Qandi, a dest...
Syrian security forces fired tear gas and bullets during a funeral for demonstrators killing one in the capital Damascus, according to reports on Satu...
Activists have warned of an imminent full-scale ground assault on the embattled Syrian city of Homs. The unconfirmed warning suggested that the Ass...
