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

The troop unit in the Ukrainian trenches facing the border knew a lot about the Russians on the other side. It had its observation posts in the forest, manned

Trapped between a lump of masonry and her kitchen stove in what was left of her ninth-floor flat, Ludmyla Omelianenko was scared, cold and alone. Then she saw M

It was the speed of the reversal that was so telling. Less than a month ago, China was insisting its “zero Covid” policy remained the only way to face down the

Israel’s on-off PM has spent a career relentlessly pursuing his vision for Israel and ignoring the Palestinian cause. It’s paid off, says Richard Spencer

Saudi Arabia has begun a wave of executions for drug offences, despite promises to cut the use of the death penalty for non-violent crimes. Fifteen people have

For more than a century, studies of the roots of European and Indian languages have fuelled wild theories about how the West conquered the world.According to so

Return to Irpin, May 13 The initial euphoria of war has disappeared in Ukraine, as it tends to. Kyiv remains suffused with patriotism but it is mixed with loss

The Jews of Odesa are fleeing the Russians again, as they did the 19th century pogroms. In a twist of fate, many are fleeing to Germany.“I told my 98-year-old g

For Syrians huddled against the winter in refugee camps across the Middle East, the bombing of Kyiv and Kharkiv has a horribly familiar look. Those who stayed b

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