How did warning flares from a small town near Gothenburg find their way into the weaponry of the anti-Assad resistance?

The Long View: Every reader of this article will be dead or of old age before the Arab "revolution" is complete. Palestinians are the only ones not to benefit from it

The leader of the North African country’s largest political party defends it against accusations that it poses a threat to secularism in the birthplace of the Arab Spring

The bombing that killed Lebanon's intelligence chief also claimed the life of a working mother. Robert Fisk reports from Beirut

The Long View: My dad, I'm afraid, had a soft spot for Mussolini, especially when Benito crushed the commies

Newly discovered picture shows Kaiser's officers at scene of Turkish atrocity

The Long View: Turkey is funnelling weapons and armed men across the border into Syria

One of the small but immensely wealthy states which may suffer from Iran's crisis is Dubai

The Long View: It's true, I suspect, that "cultural" Islam, which includes a lot of Christian artists, is greater than the Islamic religion

Israeli President "Bibi" Netanyahu on Guy Fawkes. The super-terrorist plans to blow up parliament and the King; the very nation will be liquidated. Fawkes was a Catholic rather than a Muslim – though Renaissance Europe was pretty good at bestialising both – but what a cartoon! I loved the curly fuse and the "flashy" bit on the end – Dan Dare versus The Mekon – and the red line drawn on the black line. It was all oh-so-convincing. Ninety per cent convincing.