The last US troops belonging to the global coalition to fight the Islamic State (IS) have left Iraq, where they were stationed at Victoria Base at…

Since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, which led to the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iraq has undergone a qualitative shift in regional and…

Yaniv Hayon arrived in Israel with blood on his white shirt and an incredible explanation for how he had helped steady a passenger jet: he watched…

On 25 September, Syrian authorities intercepted a shipment entering from Lebanon. Alongside 24 kilogrammes of hashish were 113 bottles of alcohol. It…

Gabriel García Márquez opened his memoir Living to Tell the Tale with the words: “Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one…

Said Jawish grew up in the Kurdish Quarter of Damascus, in a family that knew financial hardship, and worked as an electrician before joining the…

Some stories do not end when they are published; they remain open, and years later they return to you, or you return to them. You discover that what…

The departure of US forces from Iraq ahead of the 30 September deadline marks the end of an era of American counter-terrorism operations and forward…

More than half a century ago, a decision to reduce oil production and suspend exports was enough to throw industrialised economies into disarray and…