Paul Wood

Prigozhin’s bid for death or glory

25 June 2023 4:28 am

Up until this point, it was possible to believe that Putin was tolerating, or even orchestrating Yevgeny Prigozhin’s increasingly outspoken…

How Saudi Arabia bought the world

17 June 2023 9:00 am

How Saudi Arabia is buying the world

The dangerous shadow war between Iran and Israel

15 April 2023 9:00 am

The covert war between Iran and Israel

Meet the architect behind ‘Putin’s palace’

11 March 2023 9:00 am

Meet the architect accused of building Putin’s $1 billion property

Is Iran at a turning point?

10 December 2022 9:00 am

Is Iran at a turning point?

How Syria became the world’s most profitable narco state

19 November 2022 9:00 am

The drug that’s funding the Syrian regime

Cornered: could Putin go nuclear?

24 September 2022 9:00 am

Will Putin push the button to save himself?

When the Queen worked her magic on the BBC

10 September 2022 4:00 pm

The Queen and Prince Philip had written their names in the visitors’ book at a country house where I was…

Is Biden ready to let MBS get away with murder?

16 July 2022 9:00 am

Is Biden ready to let MBS get away with murder?

Europe’s last dictator: Lukashenko’s fate depends on Ukraine

9 April 2022 9:00 am

The fate of Lukashenko depends on Ukraine

Chernobyl Two?

11 March 2022 5:27 am

The electricity supply to the ruined nuclear plant at Chernobyl in Ukraine has been cut off. According to one knowledgeable…

Meet the 72-year-old British colonel taking on the Russians in Ukraine

7 March 2022 4:25 am

Some citizens of Nato countries are in Ukraine to fight. They are members of the new International Brigade the Ukrainians…

‘Help us, before it’s too late’

7 March 2022 12:29 am

Western Ukraine Outside a military recruiting centre in Lviv, Egor Grushin, one of Ukraine’s most famous classical pianists, was waiting…

Will Putin now roll on to Kiev?

22 February 2022 8:45 am

The White House told us with absolute certainty that there would be an invasion of Ukraine this week — instead…

Russian roulette: is Moscow’s bluff backfiring?

19 February 2022 9:00 am

Is Moscow’s bluff backfiring?

Putin’s big bluff

26 January 2022 3:18 am

My first visit to Ukraine was in 1994. We drove to a village about three hours south of Kiev. The…

Why we still need the BBC

22 January 2022 9:00 am

The BBC must ask itself if Nadine Dorries has a point

Daughters for sale: Afghans are growing desperate

27 November 2021 9:00 am

Afghans are growing desperate

Colin Powell: A great man – and a failure

19 October 2021 8:18 am

My memory of Colin Powell feels personal, even though we were 6000 miles apart at the time. I was in…

I’ve just watched Lebanon commit suicide – and it’s heartbreaking

16 October 2021 9:00 am

What has happened to Lebanon is a tragedy

America abandoned this fight before the Afghans did

21 August 2021 9:00 am

The West’s war in Afghanistan was always doomed

The crisis in Lebanon is a warning for the West

24 July 2021 9:00 am

Lebanon is trapped in a nightmare of its own making

Triumph of the Taleban: the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan

26 June 2021 9:00 am

Their patience is paying off

Is the worst yet to come in the Middle East?

22 May 2021 9:00 am

If Iran steps in, the worst is still to come

Migrant smuggling is one of Lebanon’s last businesses

3 May 2021 4:00 pm

Ibrahim Lachine sold his mother’s furniture to pay for a place on a smuggler’s boat from Lebanon to Cyprus and…