Increasing evidence suggests Kingdom is not merely bombing civilians in neighbouring country, but systematically targeting infrastructure survivors will need to avoid starvation when the war is over

Reconstructed after the civil war, the army is the only totally non-sectarian force in the country. It’s also the only institution that still works. Without it, conflict may yet have reignited

If the King really wants his country to be a ‘pioneering global model of excellence on all fronts’ then what is he doing shutting Saudis who want basic freedoms and rights in the clink?

There is concern from plaintiffs that ‘politics is trampling on justice’ following an agreement to restore diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey, writes Robert Fisk 

This man’s story, told with the usual anonymity for this tragic place, must melt a heart of stone and so I tell it in his own words

The democratic Kurdish parties are dwarfed by this battle, which consumed the centre of Diyabarkir last winter and early spring, and then Cizre – and then Nusaybin

Hundreds of houses are peppered with bullet holes in Diyarbakir, where the Kurdish PKK, or Workers' Party, are fighting the Turkish government

When a Syrian peasant woman approaches our table in a small Ottoman restaurant, the locals step forward to give her coins. It puts to shame the liars of the Brexit campaign and their hatred of the foreigners who supposedly threaten little England

Two years before 9/11, the al-Qaeda leader makes his intentions clear to our Middle East correspondent

Erdogan has extended Turkey’s state of emergency by 90 days and the Turkish lira has fallen – I guess that’s what 'normalisation process' means

Now France has marched down the road of absolution for its collaboration with the Nazis, it’s time to close the Algerian chapter. But there's a problem – its modern army of Egyptian workers

Peres said the massacre came as a ‘bitter surprise’. It was a lie: the UN had repeatedly told Israel the camp was packed with refugees

In Saudi Arabia itself, the government seems unable to cope with the crisis. The 'Arab News' says that 31,000 Saudi and other foreign workers have lodged complaints with the government’s labour ministry over unpaid wages. On one occasion, the Indian consulate and expatriates brought food to the workers so that their people should not starve

One year on, has the world learned the lesson of the three-year-old boy washed up on a Turkish beach?

Sunnis have been the principal victims of the largely Shia hangmen now carrying out the ‘democratically elected’ Iraqi government’s executions

The Turks don’t want a Kurdish mini-state on their frontier any more than the Syrians want to lose territory to the Kurds