Fierce fighting between Alawites and Sunnis has turned Tripoli, Lebanon, into a battleground – and brought the Syrian war home

With 700 candidates – even Ahmadinejad’s preferred heir – barred, election is all but over

IHAT is found to be failing to meet UK obligations under the European Convention of Human Rights

Meeting would be the first time the Syrian government has met face-to-face with rebel groups since the start of the two year-long civil war

William Hague has warned the Israelis and Palestinians that the prospect of a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict is slipping away and that the region faces a bleak future if the latest US-sponsored push for talks is not capitalised on.

Prisons are packed with children in the Middle Eastern state. But one survivor is fighting for those left behind

Three years after he was imprisoned for alleged anti-regime propaganda, the director is bringing a new secretly filmed feature to the festival called Manuscripts Don't Burn

Israel visit is the fourth in as many months

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said meeting of 11 countries hoped to set early date for international summit

There was standing room only in Jerusalem on Monday night as the heir to one of the most important Jewish ultra-orthodox families married his bride, in front as many as 25,000 guests.

Well-wishers, some forced to stand so far back they had to use binoculars to see what was happening, arrived from all over the world

One of Iran's most reform-minded presidential candidates has been barred from standing in next month's presidential ballot by the conservative Guardian Council leaving just eight men on the ballot paper, all of whom are considered hardliners.

Israeli and Syrian troops exchanged fire across the Golan Heights today, the third time this week that the two sides have clashed across the disputed border.

One of the most evocative and shocking episodes of the second Intifada, the shooting of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy by the Israeli army, was staged. Indeed, Mohammed al-Durrah was not even injured in the incident.

Tensions have been worsening since Iraq's minority Sunnis began protesting what they say is mistreatment