There will always be a margin of error, but after years of reporting on the region, certain things can be fairly accurately anticipated, such as the outcome of Arab elections

How rebels and civilians survived near total destruction of eastern Ghouta through huge network of tunnels

What prompts our pseudo-Churchills to play fast and loose with the Second World War?

These are the faces of those who have been affected by the siege of Eastern Ghouta

Al Jazeera did a hard-hitting investigation into US and Israeli lobbying – so why won’t they air it?

There is a dreary inevitability to the way in which the most dreadful creatures turn up at Downing Street or Buckingham Palace

In 2003, the Armenian newspaper Agos, whose editor Hrant Dink was assassinated outside his office in 2007, reported that the Turkish government was secretly coding minorities in registers

Ghouta will fall. That is the message. And when it falls, Idlib must surely be next. And then the Syrians must decide how to break the US-Kurdish hold on Raqqa

The Arabs were regarded as exotic and educated peoples whose own culture was never erased from the streets of Portugal’s cities

While Poland has decided to outlaw any claims that their countrymen participated in the extermination of the Jews, Israel continues to ignore the Armenian genocide