Social media has become a battleground in the political conflict between Qatar and Saudi Arabia and its allies.

The Utah Jazz announced today an update to its coaching staff with Antonio Lang being promoted to the front of the bench starting in the

Iranians share #MeToo moments as sex assault anger swells.

Wearable kit designed after Iraq deployment to make decontamination more ‘intuitive’.

A French journalist has been barred from entry to Egypt and deported without a clear explanation  just ahead of Abdel-Fatah al Sisi being sworn in for a second term as president.

During the last days of 2017, small demonstrations in Iran mushroomed into a nationwide movement,

THE parade featured singing schoolchildren and goose-stepping soldiers. A giant presidential portrait was wheeled along the boulevard. To some observers it must have looked like a comic sketch about an event staged by an African dictator. But no one dared snigger. The celebration of Cameroon’s national day on May 20th was lorded over by President Paul Biya, who at 85 …

AS MISSILES rolled across Red Square during Russia’s Victory Day parade on May 9th, Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, stood squarely beside President Vladimir Putin. He had come to secure Russian support for containing Iran in Syria. Pinned to his lapel was the orange and black St George’s ribbon, a symbol of the second world war that has …

A SIREN wails out across the jammed streets of Conakry, the capital of Guinea. As horns toot, vehicles part for a car sporting a spinning blue light. It is not the police or an ambulance. Instead a hearse comes wailing through. Politicians and the emergency services are not the only ones to use lights and sirens in Conakry. Congestion is …

SIX years ago Nabil Musa, a Kurdish environmentalist, returned from over a decade abroad to find Iraq transformed. Rivers in which he had swum year-round turned to dust in summer. Skies once crowded with storks and herons were empty. Drought had pushed farmers to abandon their crops, and dust storms, once rare, choked the air. Inspired to act, he joined …