Crashing oil prices – and 60 per cent of Algeria’s budget is dependent on oil and gas – is not going to endear the “coffin president” to his people

A warning for Turkey as Islamists turn on their old allies in Peshawar

Just when you thought the heritage of the Middle East was being destroyed, here’s a tale to prove the opposite. Maybe. In…

“Regrettable” means it causes us sadness. It disappoints us. The implication is that the good old Saudis have let us down, fallen from their previously high moral principles

All the shouting and screaming doesn’t stop the oil flowing from Saudi wells

Are the Saudis trying to destroy the Iranian nuclear agreement by forcing their Western allies to support even these latest outrages?

We don’t do “bad news” from Afghanistan or Iraq. It’s like a movie, replayed over and over again

So the real figures behind this extraordinary military force is not how many countries plan to participate, but how many millions – or billions – of dollars Saudi Arabia plans to pay them for their fraternal military assistance

‘Criminals’ are our chaps, while ‘terrorists’ are dark-skinned Muslims

The ironies of all this are all too obvious. The Belgian cops should have been reading Alde’emeh’s book, not condemning him for having copies of it in his car