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A British woman who became a prominent defender of Syria’s Assad regime resurfaced this week as an “international observer” for Russia’s sham referendums in Ukraine. Vanessa Beeley — described by… → Read More
A British academic whose Twitter account is tagged as “Iran state-affiliated media” was the main author of a report on Islamophobia published this week with funding from the EU’s Rights, Equality and… → Read More
A man has been sentenced to death in Libya after converting from Islam to Christianity, according to local news reports. → Read More
The Egyptian authorities have got themselves in a tangle over photography. They want the country to be seen as an attractive tourist destination and if photographers would just focus on nice things… → Read More
Thirteen people charged in connection with the world’s worst crane disaster have gone on trial in Saudi Arabia for a third time, after previously being acquitted twice. The latest retrial in the… → Read More
Following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher advocated using banned chemical weapons against Iraqi forces, declassified documents show. Despite the… → Read More
After months of apparent deadlock, the last few days have brought tentative signs of a shift in Yemen’s seven-year conflict. → Read More
A man suspected of supplying equipment to the Syrian army — including components that could be used in the manufacture of chemical weapons — has been arrested in the south of France after arriving… → Read More
The Research Handbook on Political Propaganda is a new book described by its publishers as “a crucial resource for both scholars and students”. Optimistically priced at £195 ($258), it has 29… → Read More
On Sunday the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi began using a new Covid-19 “scanning” system to check people arriving by road from neighbouring Dubai. The system is a local invention and if it lives up to… → Read More
Daniel Kawczynski is the member of parliament for Shrewsbury in England, though he is jokingly known as the member for Riyadh. “I feel passionately about Saudi Arabia,” he told the House of Commons… → Read More
A Yemeni journalist has become the latest victim of Saudi Arabia’s laws against religious disbelief. → Read More
Four ships carrying liquefied natural gas from Qatar have been diverted to supply Britain following a request for help from prime minister Boris Johnson, the Financial Times reported on Friday. One… → Read More
Leaked documents show that Saudi Arabia and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have been lobbying to water down a crucial scientific report on climate change. News of the… → Read More
The OPCW, the international body that monitors compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention, is facing an unprecedented situation where Russia and Syria — two of its member states, far from… → Read More
Syria’s claim that crucial evidence relating to chemical weapons was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes has been greeted with widespread scepticism: it sounds too convenient to be true. In a diplomatic… → Read More
Two gas cylinders that formed crucial evidence in the OPCW’s investigations of an alleged chlorine attack have been destroyed in Syria, the head of the chemical weapons watchdog reported on Friday… → Read More
The Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism is named in memory of a Lebanese-American journalist who died in a car crash while working for Iran’s Press TV in 2014. The purpose of… → Read More
A newly-formed group has joined the campaign to discredit investigations of chemical weapons in Syria and has recruited a former high-ranking UN official to its cause. “Berlin Group 21”, whose… → Read More
The Yemeni city of Marib lies 120 km to the east of the capital, Sana’a, with mountainous territory in between. It was from Marib, in the early stages of the six-year war, that pro-government forces… → Read More