The British government is removing essential building blocks of the Good Friday Agreement such as human rights and a non-partisan position between unionists and nationalists

Pretensions of humanitarian concern from Yemen by the US, Britain and France reek of hypocrisy, shedding copious tears for the victims of war while supplying the arms and advisers with which that war is being waged

Campaign trying ‘to force women to stay in their homes and not to take part in public life as Kurdish women have traditionally been able to do’

Coastal city is renegade general’s last major target in east of country, where water, food, medicine and electricity are already running out

Lack of any US restraint is attractive to Israel’s right-wing government, but it will not necessarily do Israelis a lot of good

Any Iraqi leader will seek to maintain good relations with both Washington and Tehran

Trump seems to have enjoyed the procession of European leaders from Emmanuel Macron to Boris Johnson asking for compromise, only to go away empty-handed

Israel has no real desire for armed conflict with Iran, but Trump might stumble into war against Tehran

It’s not clear if Trump and Netanyahu want a war with Iran – but they may fall into one all the same

The US will reimpose sanctions, and Iran will inevitably resume all or part of the nuclear program halted by the 2015 agreement since it will no longer receive any benefit from it