Paul Wood

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…

Dry January

11 January 2025 9:00 am

The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights

30 November 2024 9:00 am

The SAS are worried. Britain’s most elite military unit have come face to face with the IRA, the Taliban and…

Will a ceasefire with Hezbollah last?

27 November 2024 3:17 am

Peace is apparently closer than ever in Lebanon. So expect more bloodshed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Israeli cabinet…

How Trump could temper tensions in the Middle East

9 November 2024 9:00 am

One of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign ads was aimed at Jewish voters. Three stereotypical New York bubbes are kvetching about…

Israel is reshaping the Middle East in its favour

5 October 2024 9:00 am

Iran has fallen into the trap set by Israel. It has taken the bait after months of failing to respond…

Is Israel trying to drag America into a war with Iran?

28 September 2024 9:00 am

The American general David Petraeus famously asked of the invasion of Iraq: ‘Tell me how this ends.’ That’s the question…

Hezbollah’s exploding pagers are just the start

21 September 2024 9:00 am

Israel’s security cabinet met in a bunker in the ministry of defence in Tel Aviv on Monday night. The main…

The mad, bad, sad world of Ryan Routh

18 September 2024 11:37 pm

Any journalist who has covered a war will recognise Ryan Routh’s type immediately – the war zone nutter. Routh is currently…

I’m confused

14 September 2024 9:00 am

Punch and Judy

24 August 2024 9:00 am

Can anything stop a full-scale conflict in the Middle East?

10 August 2024 9:00 am

The fact that the Middle East stands on the brink of a catastrophic war can be explained by a scene…

Lost his seat

13 July 2024 9:00 am

Nemesis

6 July 2024 9:00 am

Ozempic

1 June 2024 9:00 am