Richard Spencer

This digestible history of the restless region is a useful alternative to academic tracts. By Richard Spencer

There is a particular pain in knowing your relative was close to freedom, but had the opportunity seized from her at the last moment. For the family of Carmel Gat, an occupational therapist, that

Hostages released by Hamas under a ceasefire deal have described their “hellish” experiences and called for a new agreement to rescue the men and women left behind.Israeli and Hamas negotiators said

The Iran-backed Houthi rebel movement in Yemen has opened a southern front against Israel, as Shia “resistance movements” across the Middle East threaten to join the war in response to the assault on

On October 7 Hamas attacked Israel, leading to the deadliest day in the country’s history. Since then Israel has struck thousands of targets in Gaza in retalia

Noiya Sharabi, a British-Israeli teenager who was missing after Hamas stormed her family home in Israel, was murdered in the October 7 attacks, her family have said.Noiya, 16, her sister Yahel Sharabi

In the decadent West, parents buy clothes or pop music for their daughters’ ninth birthdays. In Beijing, Shen Dong, a university lecturer, is planning to buy a bar of gold. “If I were to buy toys, they would be like any other fast-moving consumer goods and quickly disappear,” Shen, 45, said. “With g

The family of a British businessman who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Dubai after finishing a ten-year term for the same offence are appealing for clemency directly to the emirate’s ruler.

The West must prepare for the collapse and break-up of Russia, having failed to do so with the Soviet Union, Ukraine’s national security adviser has said.In an

Arab states wanting to bring Syria’s Assad regime in from the cold are heading for a confrontation with western allies who remain opposed to lifting sanctions a