Will European allies get drawn into the US-Iran war?

Key US allies, like the UK and France, initially said the US attacks on Iran were unlawful, but after Trump lashed out some are now singing a different tune

Con Coughlin

France Takes the Lead

[caption id="attachment_55246042" align="aligncenter" width="620"] French Defense Minister Jean Yves Le Drian (L) sits near Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Sultan bin Salman during a meeting in Jeddah,…

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Netanyahu, Denim, and The Bomb

[caption id="attachment_55246015" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An Iranian man looks at a pair of jeans at shop in Tehran on October 7, 2013. A campaign launched by young Iranians on internet…

Ataollah Mohajerani

Erdoğan’s Mandatory Measures

[caption id="attachment_55245986" align="alignnone" width="594"] People of Reyhanlı (in southern Turkey) chant slogans as riot police block them on May 18, 2013, during the funerals of the victims of…

Mehmet Solmaz

Sadat’s Example for Egypt

[caption id="attachment_55245974" align="alignnone" width="594"] Egyptian president Anwar Sadat attends the successful conclusion of the Sinai II negotiations in 1975 in Alexandria, Egypt. (David…

Mahmud El-Shafey

Libya’s Power Play

[caption id="attachment_55245966" align="alignnone" width="620"] Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan arrives at the government headquarters in Tripoli on October 10, 2013, shortly after he was freed…

Tasbeeh Herwees

Snubbing the Kurds

[caption id="attachment_55245932" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish high school students pose on October 1, 2013 in the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, a day after Erdoğan's reform…

Ahu Özyurt

Yemen's Huddled Masses

[caption id="attachment_55245891" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Yemeni refugee girl fills a container with water in a makeshift kitchen in the grounds of a public school in the port city of Aden…

Nasser Arrabyee

A Sixty-Year Bluff

[caption id="attachment_55245886" align="alignnone" width="619"] US President Barack Obama and US Vice President Joe Biden greet troops during a ceremony to mark the return of the US Forces-Iraq…

Alex Edwards

Scenes from Cairo

[caption id="attachment_55245878" align="alignnone" width="594"] T-shirts, some depicting Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, are sold on Tahrir Square during the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Arab–Israeli war on…

Adel Al-Toraifi