Middle East and North Africa
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PM travelling to Bahrain for Gulf Cooperation Council summit in pursuit of first post-Brexit trade deal with bloc
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Israel leader renews criticism of Iran pact, which Trump has called a ‘disaster’, and says they will discuss it after president-elect enters the White House
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Pentagon says release of Yemeni Shawqi Awad Balzuhair, held without trial since October 2002, leaves 59 prisoners at US base in Cuba
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Growing number – and scale – of crises around the world is not matched by countries’ will to tackle them, experts warn
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Confiscated objects date from the third and fourth centuries and include a head of Aphrodite and two funereal bas-reliefs
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Strike represents single worst incidence of civilian casualties in the entire US war against Isis, as human rights groups says military is undercounting the death toll
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Deal under negotiation in Ankara involves ceasefire and opening of corridors for delivering humanitarian aid
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Mehdi Rajabian, who was imprisoned with his brother for distributing underground music, is being treated for internal bleeding
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Families of British tourists killed by gunman said to have agreed it would be better to keep security measures secret
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Stephen O’Brien says 25,000 forced to flee homes since Saturday as Russia dismisses ‘pointless’ resolutions in security council emergency session
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Editorial: As Assad’s forces, backed by the Russians, make their final move on Syria’s second city, the world can only count the cost of a humanitarian and military disaster it failed to stop
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Labour MPs turn out in force to defeat Alex Salmond’s motion, accusing him of ‘an attempt to pillory and scapegoat one individual’
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With 201 MPs listed as supporters of the plan, government backing would mean a Commons majority in favour
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Haftar, who previously requested military support from the Kremlin to help fight Islamic militants in Libya, met foreign minister Sergei Lavrov
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UN Syria envoy says he cannot say how long eastern Aleppo will last following an acceleration of ‘military movement’
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Diplomats have made clear EU will not sign any cheques for country run by Assad, who is accused of multiple war crimes
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Residents say they have not heard from relatives arrested in Masakan Hanano district after it fell on Sunday to Iraqi and Lebanese militias
Opec doesn’t hold all the cards, even after its oil price agreement