There was nothing seriously unexpected in Rachel Reeves’s speech today to EU finance ministers. Most of it was non-committal flim-flam:…

One hundred years after the world’s major powers conceived the landscape of the modern Middle East, the tumultuous events unfolding…

The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is out in the Gulf, peddling infrastructure projects to Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman.…

On Sunday, thousands of Syrians poured out onto the streets of Istanbul to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The…

It is salutary to remember that were it not for Ed Miliband, Bashar al-Assad might have been deposed 11 years…

There was one person missing in Paris on Saturday evening as France celebrated the resurrection of Notre Dame cathedral. The…

With a change of government, you might have thought 4 July would see a lot of new brooms in Whitehall.…

‘The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences.’ So said Barack Obama in a speech in…

The wind of change is sweeping through the Upper House. What with Labour’s plans to expel the last hereditaries and…

On Saturday afternoon, US intelligence officials leaked an assessment: the Assad regime, which has ruled Syria for over half a…

‘Go woke, go broke,’ runs the catchphrase. Now, at last, we are presented with the welcome opportunity to put this…

The obsession with ‘toxic masculinity’ shows no sign of abating. As reported this weekend, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, has…

Well, well, well. In a rather curious turn of events, it now transpires that Rael Braverman – husband of former…

The Iranian-dominated Shia arc has collapsed. The keystone to the arc was Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the partnership that his father Hafiz al-Assad forged with the Iranian regime in…

Deputy PM ‘welcomes the news’ that the Assad regime has fallen Rebel forces in Syria have captured Damascus, and Bashar…

The Kremlin’s involvement in Syria’s civil war was always, first and foremost, about posing as a great multi-regional power rather…

Iran’s Axis of Resistance is falling apart. Israel has significantly degraded Hezbollah’s capabilities and decapitated its leadership. Hamas has been…

After 13 years of war that began with street protests during the heady days of the Arab Spring and morphed…

The astonishing and abrupt fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Damascus is a moment of historic importance for the Middle…

Gradually, and then suddenly, the regime of Bashar al-Assad has collapsed. This century’s most evil tyrant has fled Syria, and…

So here we are again – another well-known BBC presenter is facing a growing list of allegations of misconduct, tarnishing…

It is 00.40 pm, 26 September 1983. Lieutenant-Colonel Stanislav Petrov, the duty commander in charge of monitoring the Soviet Union’s early…

Not a single home remains intact in the village of Bohorodychne in Donbas, since it was torn apart by artillery…