Middle East and North Africa
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The Booker prize-winning author visits refugee camps in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon as a guest of World Vision, accompanied by the artist Ben Quilty
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Four gunmen entered home run by Mother Theresa charity claiming they wanted to visit their mothers – then they opened fire
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Doctors say a spike in respiratory diseases is a result of eight months of uncollected waste piled up on country’s streets
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David Cameron, Angela Merkel and François Hollande will ask Russian president to do more to uphold shaky truce
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Senior figures in defence ministry were cut out of discussions in the run-up to the war, according to new book Broken Vows: Tony Blair – The Tragedy of Power
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Around 1 million lives are at risk if the dam breaks, but the US’s alarmist warning about it contains another clear message
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Lead QC charged more than £400,000 to defend ex-PM of Qatar in case alleging he was linked to torture of British citizen
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Legal doubts and human rights outcry after Israeli PM threatens to punish relatives over wave of stabbings, car ramming and shootings
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Syrians, Iraqis and Kurds plead with guards to be let into Macedonia, as bottleneck of 10,000 migrants in tents keeps building
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American officials have been interrogating the militant since seizing him in a raid last month as part of a new expeditionary targeting force in the country
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Kurdish town likened to Kobani as locals return to find bodies and gutted homes after Turkish army kills hundreds of militants
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Editorial: There are more and more refugees at Europe’s gates, but teargas and barbed wire are not the answer
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UN special envoy sets 9 March start date in sign of confidence that cessation of hostilities agreement is just about holding
Notes on the Syrian exodus: ‘Epic in scale, inconceivable until you witness it’