Lebanon marks the first anniversary on Saturday of a non-sectarian protest movement that has rocked the political elite but has yet to achieve its goal of sweeping reform. A whirlwind of hope and despair has gripped the country in the year since protests began with an economic crisis and a...

Two years on, the main figures accused in the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul have not been held accountable, but this cannot go on forever.  Friday marks the two-year anniversary of the murder of Khashoggi, who was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul....

Turkey and Iran are increasingly adopting "game-changing" drones as their weapon of choice against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, prompting fears for the safety of civilians and stoking geopolitical tensions. "Not a day goes by without us seeing a drone," said Mohammad Hassan, mayor of...

On 10 September 2020 Dr Adnan Al-Jasem became the first doctor in northern Syria to die from coronavirus. Al-Jasem had fled the bombings in Deir Ezzor in the east of the country and tended to the wounded throughout Syria’s nine-year long war. Yet it was the virus he died of whilst working...