Lizzie Porter

No pro­duc­tion dis­rup­tion or pull­out plan af­ter oil com­pa­ny op­er­a­tions tar­get­ed by rock­et fire in Bas­ra, in­sid­ers say.

In­ter­na­tion­al ac­tors, in­tra-rebel vi­o­lence and trib­al af­fil­i­a­tions com­pli­cate prospects for peace in Syr­ia.

Will the Lebanese group stick around in Syr­ia, and how will it re­pair its im­age among or­di­nary cit­i­zens?

Groups meet­ing in Sau­di Ara­bia’s cap­i­tal look to form sin­gle strat­e­gy to con­front As­sad, but odds of suc­cess seem low.

Air­port clo­sures and skir­mish­es be­tween Iraqi and Kur­dish forces led or­gan­is­ers to call off the event.

Short­ages in food and med­i­cine are in­creas­ing the suf­fer­ing of hun­dreds of thou­sands in be­sieged sub­urbs of Dam­as­cus.

Thou­sands were abused in Is­raeli cus­tody at the Khi­am de­ten­tion cen­tre, where lo­cals hope to build a larg­er memo­r­i­al.

Two years af­ter set­tlers killed a Pales­tin­ian baby and his par­ents, the Dawab­sheh fam­i­ly’s pain lives on.

Sell­ing to North Amer­i­ca has been a long-held dream for the Khoury fam­i­ly, own­ers of a mi­cro­brew­ery in Tay­beh vil­lage.