Martin Armstrong

Analy­sis: Wrestling con­trol of an­cient city from ISIL would al­low gov­ern­ment to por­tray it­self as ‘de­fend­er’ of cul­ture.

Pales­tin­ian refugees vow to con­tin­ue protests against UN health­care cuts as dire con­di­tions in Ain al-Hilweh get worse.

Many fear there will be cuts to bad­ly need­ed ser­vices, but the UN agency says these con­cerns are un­found­ed.

On ex­plor­ing the refugee ex­pe­ri­ence through the­atre.

Lebanon’s protest move­ment has re­con­nect­ed peo­ple with down­town Beirut’s cos­mopoli­tan past, ac­tivists say.

Fears of cor­rup­tion will not stop the ex­plo­ration of po­ten­tial­ly vast – and vast­ly lu­cra­tive – off­shore re­sources.

Tunisia is con­cerned about the ef­fects of smug­gling on the coun­try’s econ­o­my and se­cu­ri­ty.

The seizure of the Tabqa air­base high­lights the Is­lam­ic State’s con­sol­i­da­tion of pow­er in east­ern Syr­ia, an­a­lysts say.

Fight­ing has es­ca­lat­ed be­tween the group and Syr­i­an regime over the Shaar gas fields in the re­source-rich Homs province.