Trump has turned away from any notion of fairness in peace negotiations and run with Israel’s ball

There is precious little reason to find any optimism across the smashed and rubbleised landscape of the Middle East

Civilians and police and security forces have repeatedly been targeted in recent years

It’s worth remembering how much Saad Hariri liked – and quite probably still does like – Saudi Arabia

To have Saudi officials now trying to dictate the make-up of another Lebanese government suggests that they want to take on the role played out for decades by pre-civil war Syria

A look at Saad Hariri’s resignation as Prime Minister of Lebanon

It’s worth remembering this museum – and that room – now that the right has returned to Germany’s political life

It would be Russia who does the rebuilding of Syria after the war and Saudi Arabia who paid for it. The two vast oil nations now seem to be set on a course of mutual collaboration

For 24 hours, the world was told about the lifting of the driving ban rather than the chopping-off of heads, the arrest of human rights activists and the horrific war in Yemen

The Metropolitan Police in London will in a few hours’ time find themselves involved in the Gulf crisis when UK lawyers for…