Pistols, airstrikes and smuggled cows: a letter from Islamic State border country
Turkey, Syria It is the early hours of the day that Parliament votes on whether to bomb the so-called ‘Islamic…
Paul Wood's diary: From James Foley's memorial to gunfire in the streets
Lebanon The Beirut press corps gather to remember the murdered journalist Jim Foley. People stand for a minute’s silence, drink…
Travels in Isis country: priests, Peshmerga and property developers
Arriving in Erbil, you don’t feel you are in Iraq, but another country altogether, which is what the Kurds would…
‘It’s jihad, innit, bruv’: meet the British Muslims going to fight in Syria
Meeting the British Muslims who have joined the ‘Islamic State’
Baghdad notebook: "Things were better in Saddam's time"
In the passport queue at Baghdad airport, my heart sinks. This place vies with Cairo for the title of most…
A new Islamist alliance among Syria’s rebels has given Assad the enemy he wants
A new Islamist alliance among Syria’s rebels leaves the West’s friends in the country weaker than ever
Syria’s war in miniature: meeting the Christians driven out of Qusayr
Events in one Syrian town cast light on the nation’s strife
