A confusing conversation with a doctor who may be an official of the YPG

It’s easy to think the war is over. Until mortars from el-Ghouta swish over Damascus and explode in the old Christian area of Bab el-Roma with its grocery shops and restaurants

The true victims of Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria are revealed – refugees, babies, women and children

It’s below zero degrees on the vast dirt hillside above Totah but through the mist and freezing rain, I can see the…

The road to Sinjar passes through dozens of bleak, damp, wrecked villages. Their houses have crumpled under shellfire, the gateways lie in…

Turkey and Syria will never allow it to create a mini-state

Shortly before Kushner accompanied Trump on his first diplomatic trip to Israel in May, his family real estate company received about $30m in investments from Menora Mivtachim, one of Israel’s largest insurers and financial institutions

Isn’t the man in charge of the CIA’s Iran operations taking a serious interest in the latest events in Iran? Surely he is. That’s his job, isn’t it? But why this silence?

Boustani owned a magnificent house only four hundred metres from the Mar Mikhael station. His residence, his kindness and the memory of those trains is being remembered this month with paintings by the British artist Tom Young

There is no evidence he got his teeth into any of the president of the Arab Bank’s money – or tried to – but many Palestinians regard this as a close-run thing