Paul Wood

The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in Syria

5 July 2025 9:00 am

Syria’s Alawite communities are in the grip of a fear that their women and girls could be kidnapped and held…

Watch with mother

21 June 2025 9:00 am

The Kurds have finally given in to Erdogan

17 May 2025 9:00 am

All wars end, one way or another. One of the longest wars in the Middle East, between Turkey and Kurdish…

Brexity books?

17 May 2025 9:00 am

Ludere in Leone: who made money from the new pontiff?

9 May 2025 8:29 am

Was the first American Pope ushered in on a wave of suspect, last-minute betting? Something odd seems to have been…

The secrets of ‘God’s influencer’

3 May 2025 9:00 am

Assisi In a medieval church built of white stone, pilgrims and tourists shuffle past the body of a 15-year-old boy…

Would Trump really bomb Iran?

19 April 2025 9:00 am

A satellite picture shows six American B-2 Stealth bombers parked on the runway at Diego Garcia. The planes – each…

It can go from 0

19 April 2025 9:00 am

Saviour complex: Jonathan Powell is still trying to change the world

12 April 2025 9:00 am

In 2011, the Hampstead theatre put on an autobiographical play about a marriage strained by lies, betrayal and, as the…

Will Trump join the strongman club?

29 March 2025 9:00 am

The world’s most exclusive club, of presidents-for-life, is growing. It already includes Putin of Russia, Xi of China, Lukashenko of…

Background-checks

29 March 2025 9:00 am

It’s no good

22 March 2025 9:00 am

Massacre of the innocents: the return of sectarian persecution in Syria

15 March 2025 9:00 am

No one covers up their war crimes any more. They film them, celebrate them, post them on X. So we…

The strange beauty of the vigil for the Pope

1 March 2025 9:00 am

Steady rain during the day stopped just before Monday’s evening prayers for Pope Francis in Saint Peter’s Square. A line…

I was convinced by the cholesterol sceptics

22 February 2025 9:00 am

It’s never a good thing when your cardiologist sounds alarmed on the phone. Come in tomorrow, he said: we’ll get…

What Trump’s Gaza plan means for the Middle East

15 February 2025 9:00 am

Donald Trump told reporters this week that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to free some of the…

That’s by Ed Miliband

15 February 2025 9:00 am

Homework was hard

1 February 2025 9:00 am

The Donald’s plans for the Middle East

18 January 2025 9:00 am

The former US president Jimmy Carterdied, at the age of 100, just before news of an imminent deal to free…

L.A. Fires

18 January 2025 9:00 am

America’s new ally in the battle against Isis: the Taliban

11 January 2025 9:00 am

Isis are back. In fact, to borrow Gerry Adams’s remark about the IRA, they never went away. Now, they are…