Middle East Articles

That 'Snow is the primary form of precipitation in Kurdistan' may astonish those new to Kurdish issues. The mountain snow irrigates the land where agriculture was born. The mountains have also long been seen by the Kurds as their only friends given how many times they...

Last summer it happened again. Violence flared between Israel and Gaza. As those events unfolded in the Middle East, and we witnessed the extremely worrying backlash here at home the all-party parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism began its work. Today it comes to a...

Today’s report by the defence select committee, of which I am part, does not pull its punches on the failure of the UK to engage effectively against the extremists that continue to peddle terror from their base in Iraq and Syria. So far the government’s actions to...

Tony Blair’s legacy is hotly contested. He defends it to Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison The expected publication next year of the much-delayed Chilcot inquiry will reopen, if it ever closed, the debate about Britain’s most controversial foreign policy action since...