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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Will Palestinians sue Britain over the Balfour declaration of 1917?Call by Mahmoud Abbas for historical reckoning reflects impasse in hope for diplomatic progress towards a two-state solution to end conflict with Israel
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'Europe pays a heavy price for Syria – it must act to end the crisis'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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Erdoğan has apologised for downing of Russian jet, Kremlin saysStatement cites Turkish president as saying Ankara ‘never had the desire and the intention’ to down warplane
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Jordan seals borders after suicide attackSix killed and 14 injured in remote desert area where Syrian refugees were being screened for suspected Isis links
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Iran says Bahrain has crossed line by stripping Shia cleric of citizenshipRevolutionary Guards commander says Manama’s move against Ayatollah Isa Qassim will trigger armed resistance
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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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Three out of four Syrians believe a political solution can end the warRare 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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Syria: Vienna meeting agrees aid airdrops but fails to set date for talksInternational Syria Support Group pledges airdrops of supplies to besieged areas, but failure to agree date underlines depth of divisions
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Kerry and Lavrov chair Vienna meeting aimed at kickstarting Syria peace effortOptimism in short supply at meeting of International Syria Support Group, which hopes to patch up partial ceasefire agreement
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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.
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow Chilcot report: Bush says 'world is better off' without Saddam as Blair mounts Iraq war defence – as it happened