Ian Black
Ian Black is the Guardian's Middle East editor. In more than 25 years on the paper he has also been its European editor, diplomatic editor, foreign leader writer and Middle East correspondent
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Mapping My Return - Salman Abu Sitta on the fate of the PalestiniansVivid re-telling of the experience of the Nakba - a tragedy that did not end with Israel’s war of independence in 1948
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NGOs demand end to Syria atrocities as Aleppo airstrikes continueUS talking to Russia about reducing fighting in Aleppo after agreeing ‘regime of calm’ deal in Latakia and Eastern Ghouta
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Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East by Nicolas PelhamSectarianism is the hall-mark of the deadly collapse of the Arab nation-state, argues a thought-provoking new book. The Ottomans managed better.
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Syria's truce is over as airstrikes destroy Aleppo hospitalWith at least 27 patients and staff reported dead, UN says urgent aid is needed amid multiple breaches of ceasefire
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Syria’s peace talks begin to look like a cover for more warParties are paying lip-service to a ‘political solution’ even as a dysfunctional truce collapses around them
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Syria's civil war: five years of Guardian reportingFive years after the start of the Syrian conflict, a collection of the Guardian’s most powerful reporting from world’s most intractable conflict
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Iran election results put Hassan Rouhani on cautious path to reformPresident’s policy of engagement has been vindicated by electorate but there are limits to what he will be able to achieve
Russia and UN discuss new Aleppo truce