Syria’s latest atrocityAssad kills at least 85 with chemical weaponsA dictator defies the worldprint-edition iconApr 5th 2017
Overnight cruise missiles launchedDonald Trump strikes at Syria’s Bashar al-AssadBut what happens next?Apr 7th 2017
The Gulf’s “little Sparta”The ambitious United Arab EmiratesDriven by an energetic crown price, the UAE is building bases far beyond its bordersprint-edition iconApr 6th 2017
Still burningEgypt is failing to stop the insurgency in SinaiThe other front in the war against Islamic Stateprint-edition iconApr 6th 2017
Jacob Zuma v the peopleSouth Africa’s president is totteringJacob Zuma faces a revolt after replacing a scrupulous finance minister with a cronyprint-edition iconApr 6th 2017
Reaching for the skyWhy Ethiopia is building a space programmeAnd why critics think it an odd use of scarce resourcesApr 4th 2017
Islam and the sceptred isleBritain courts the Muslim world as European ties frayHistory repeats itselfApr 1st 2017
UnsettlingA new Israeli settlement on the West BankBut the settlers are worried that Donald Trump will try to make peace Mar 31st 2017
Zuma’s revengeSouth Africa’s president sacks the finance minister in a cabinet reshuffleA show of strength by a president desperate to control his party’s futureMar 31st 2017
State of minesIslamic State is losing land but leaving mines behindClearing Syria and Iraq of unexploded bombs and booby-traps could take decadesprint-edition iconMar 30th 2017
Return of the third horsemanFamine menaces 20m people in Africa and YemenWar, not drought, is the reason people are starvingprint-edition iconMar 30th 2017
Prime minister v punditsBibi Netanyahu takes on the mediaA politician with 2m Facebook fans wants more sway over Israeli televisionprint-edition iconMar 30th 2017
Pants on fire in CairoWhy Egypt’s ruler loves Donald TrumpAnd how the Egyptian media exaggerate a bromanceprint-edition iconMar 30th 2017
The dictator walksHosni Mubarak, Egypt’s ex-president, is set freeBut his opponents remain in prisonMar 24th 2017
