Khashoggi knew all about power and danger. Almost a quarter of a century ago, he turned up at my hotel in Khartoum and drove me into the Sudanese desert to meet Osama bin Laden

Journalism and Israel can be combined in the Gideon Levy story. His love-hate relationship with the one can get mixed up with his horror of the path down which his country is now travelling

We’ve watched this stage-play so many times that it has, like so much of the West Bank, become normal.

The only massed forces I came across were vast herds of sheep and, close to Aleppo, a string of camels. Not a single soldier was carrying a gas mask. Which would surely be a sure sign of an imminent chemical attack anywhere on the front, whoever was dropping the stuff

Balancing Saudi, Iranian and Western interests – its position is precarious

He was one of my few Middle East heroes

Their hearts may thus be empty but their stomachs shall be filled. Their hopes may be dead but their bank accounts will be in the black

Thanks to Donald Trump, it’s all over for the ‘rebels’ of Syria because they have been betrayed by the Americans – surely and finally by Trump himself in those secret discussions with Vladimir Putin

‘This is going to end up with us all fighting each other, Muslims versus Muslims, Croats against Croats, Serbs against Serbs’

The wait for justice continues