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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Anti-Assad opposition wants to see the EU – despite Brexit diversions – do more to help secure a political solution to the bloody conflict in its own backyard
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Statement cites Turkish president as saying Ankara ‘never had the desire and the intention’ to down warplane
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Six killed and 14 injured in remote desert area where Syrian refugees were being screened for suspected Isis links
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Revolutionary Guards commander says Manama’s move against Ayatollah Isa Qassim will trigger armed resistance
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Vivid 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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Rare polling shows that 60% believe that the influence of the jihadis of Islamic State has decreased in the last six months
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International Syria Support Group pledges airdrops of supplies to besieged areas, but failure to agree date underlines depth of divisions
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Optimism in short supply at meeting of International Syria Support Group, which hopes to patch up partial ceasefire agreement
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US talking to Russia about reducing fighting in Aleppo after agreeing ‘regime of calm’ deal in Latakia and Eastern Ghouta
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Sectarianism 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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With at least 27 patients and staff reported dead, UN says urgent aid is needed amid multiple breaches of ceasefire
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Parties are paying lip-service to a ‘political solution’ even as a dysfunctional truce collapses around them
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One of last paediatricians in rebel-held area of Syrian city among the dead, as UN envoy says ceasefire is now ‘barely alive’
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British, French, German and Dutch MPs appeal for food and medicines to be dropped as UN envoy urges US and Russia to revitalise damaged peace process
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15-year plan includes diversification, privatisation of state assets, tax increases and creating a $2tn sovereign wealth fund
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Opposition negotiators say they are leaving Geneva, overshadowing final day of Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia
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US president’s low-key arrival and meeting with King Salman underscores tension that has deepened over US policy towards Iran and the war in Syria
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A Senate bill, which he has spoken out against, looks to enable victims of the terrorist attacks to sue the Saudi government if it is found to have been involved
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