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  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Israel launches air strikes against Iranian-linked targets in Syria

    Dozens of soldiers reported killed in big bombing raid ahead of Trump’s departure

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Obituary
    Walid al-Muallem, Syrian foreign minister, 1941-2020

    An immovable stalwart in Bashar al-Assad’s regime

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Special Report
    The Future of Cities

    How to make cities more liveable and recycle retail space; three US mayors on the pandemic’s ‘Hunger Games’; smart water infrastructure to fight Covid-19; the resurgence of parks; how to prevent disaster in Manhattan and encourage more walking and cycling everywhere

  • Monday, 16 November, 2020
    News in-depth
    Wheat and fuel shortages overwhelm Syria

    The country’s economic collapse has been aggravated by the pandemic, Lebanese banking crisis and international isolation

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
    Gideon Rachman
    Three strongmen and their battle for the Middle East

    The Russian, Turkish and Saudi leaders are engaged in a struggle for power and influence

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    Russia blames US for military convoy crash in Syria

    American troops injured in clash amid fears of heightened tensions between rival powers

  • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
    David Gardner
    Hizbollah is on shaky ground as Lebanon implodes

    Tribunal ruling on Hariri’s killing and Beirut explosion add to country’s instability

  • Monday, 27 July, 2020
    Libya
    UN says ‘huge risk’ of regional war in conflict-riven Libya

    Weapons and mercenaries continue to arrive around the strategic city of Sirte

  • Tuesday, 14 July, 2020
    Middle East
    Libya’s eastern parliament signals support for Egyptian military intervention

    Invitation to Cairo could herald direct confrontation between Egypt and Turkey in war-torn country

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  • Monday, 6 July, 2020
    EU immigration
    ‘High probability’ Greek soldiers killed Syrian man at Turkish border, report finds

    Forensic Architecture’s findings used in European parliament hearing

  • Tuesday, 23 June, 2020
    Global InsightChloe Cornish
    Despite fiery rhetoric, Caesar’s Syria sanctions fizzle

    Reaction to last week’s action was muted and, in the short-term, has hit civilians

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    David Gardner
    Sanctions against the Assad regime are unlikely to help Syrians

    The supposed beneficiaries of the US Caesar Act will be pushed faster towards famine

  • Monday, 8 June, 2020
    Syria protests erupt in rare show of dissent against Assad

    Economic hardship provokes demonstrations in government-controlled southern towns

  • Wednesday, 3 June, 2020
    David Gardner
    In Libya the west is strengthening its adversaries

    Halfhearted interventions have made a bad situation worse

  • Tuesday, 26 May, 2020
    Libya
    US accuses Russia of sending fighter jets to Libyan war

    Public statement is strongest yet against Moscow’s alleged meddling in year-long conflict

  • Sunday, 24 May, 2020
    Syria’s children ‘go to bed hungry’ as prices soar

    More than half the population ‘food insecure’ as coronavirus and weak currency hit supply chains

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
    Syria
    Billionaire vs president — Assad family dispute grips Syria

    Rami Makhlouf’s complaints against his cousin show strains in power structure

  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2020
    Assassinations in southern Syria expose limits of Assad’s control

    Killings in Dera’a province are testing Syrian leader’s alliance with Russia

  • Thursday, 23 April, 2020
    Syrian war crimes trial begins in Germany

    Intelligence official charged with overseeing 4,000 counts of torture and 58 murders

  • Thursday, 9 April, 2020
    News in-depthCoronavirus pandemic
    Syria’s shattered health service left exposed as coronavirus spreads

    Nearly a decade of civil war has driven up to 70 per cent of medics to flee, WHO says

  • Sunday, 29 March, 2020
    Nikos Dendias
    Turkey’s refugee ‘extortion diplomacy’ must end

    Ankara is using migrants as pawns in an attempt to blackmail the EU

  • Thursday, 26 March, 2020
    David Gardner
    Middle East may face an explosion of refugee Covid-19 cases

    Movement of paramilitaries and pilgrims also make it hard to contain the disease in the region

  • Monday, 23 March, 2020
    Libya
    Libya says foreign mercenaries could bring coronavirus to region

    UN-backed government accuses Russia’s Wagner of flying Syrian fighters to Benghazi

  • Sunday, 22 March, 2020
    Mevlut Cavusoglu
    EU inaction on Syria a stain on human conscience

    Turkey, the UK and EU must work together to stabilise our common neighbourhood

  • Sunday, 8 March, 2020
    News in-depth
    Idlib puts little faith in Russian-Turkish peace deal

    Pessimism abounds in war-ravaged towns and villages after ‘killer ceasefire’ agreement

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