Paul Wood

Saddam on money

Baghdad notebook

5 July 2014 9:00 am

In the passport queue at Baghdad airport, my heart sinks. This place vies with Cairo for the title of most…

The enemy Assad wants

5 October 2013 9:00 am

A new Islamist alliance among Syria’s rebels leaves the West’s friends in the country weaker than ever

A miniature civil war

10 August 2013 9:00 am

Events in one Syrian town cast light on the nation’s strife