Middle East

Ground: Ten years of the Palestinian conflict in pictures

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Photojournalist Bruno Stevens has spent the last ten years on the front-line in Gaza, photographing the effects of the Israeli-Palestine conflict on the people who live there.

Video: Iran launches cyber-police force

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Iran has launched its first cyber-crime unit in a bid to tighten up on internet security.

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Palestinian leader hits back at claims that he 'sold out' to Israel

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Palestinian officials were scrambling yesterday to head off a mounting political crisis by claiming that thousands of leaked communiqués documenting unprecedented concessions in favour of Israel were a mixture of fabrications and distortions.

Rioters turn their fury on Al Jazeera

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Demonstrators daubed "Israeli spies" in paint on the offices of Al Jazeera yesterday, smashing windows and security cameras in protest at the leaked revelations by the Qatar-based broadcaster.

Donald Macintyre: Few of the 'revealed' concessions are new, or conclusive

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

In the public 2003 Geneva Initiative, the Palestinians went further on territory than seems the case in the leaked papers

Palestinians 'ready to give up Jerusalem sites'

Monday, 24 January 2011

Palestinians offered Israel 'the biggest Jerusalem in history', according to leaked documents.

At least 26 people killed in Iraq bomb blasts

Monday, 24 January 2011

Two car bombs tore through parking lots packed with Shiite pilgrims today in an Iraqi holy city, pushing the death toll from a week of attacks to more than 170.

Palestinians deny 'Jerusalem offer'

Monday, 24 January 2011

Palestinian negotiators denied offering a compromise over two of the toughest issues with Israel.

Commandos cleared over deaths on aid ship deaths in Gaza Strip

Monday, 24 January 2011

A government-backed inquiry has found that Israeli commandoes acted in self-defence when they boarded a Gaza-bound ship last May, killing nine activists in the bloody clashes that ensued.

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Palestinians wait for answers on Israeli war in Gaza

Monday, 24 January 2011

Human rights groups demand progress in inquiries over Israel's conduct in Operation Cast Lead, reports Donald Macintyre

Briton who killed colleagues in Iraq 'acted in self-defence'

Monday, 24 January 2011

A British security contractor told an Iraqi court yesterday that he was acting in self-defence when he shot two co-workers, claiming that they had threatened to kill him after a drunken brawl in Baghdad's Green Zone.

Israeli inquiry rules that flotilla raid was legal

Sunday, 23 January 2011

An Israeli inquiry cleared the government and military today of wrongdoing in the bloody seizure of a Turkish aid ship that tried to breach the Gaza blockade, saying passengers were to blame for the violence.

Car bombs kill 10 in Baghdad

Sunday, 23 January 2011

A flurry of morning bombs killed 10 people and wounded 34 around Baghdad, police said, in what one Iraqi official called an attempt to undermine security ahead of a much anticipated meeting of Arab heads of state in two months.

Iraq militia chief was behind pilgrim blasts

Saturday, 22 January 2011

Iraqi police arrested the local leader of a government-backed Sunni Muslim militia for planning the deadly bombings on Shiite pilgrims this week, Iraqi officials said today.

Iran says nuclear talks will resume at unknown date

Saturday, 22 January 2011

No date set for resumption of talks aimed at persuading Tehran to rein in its nuclear programme.

Meanwhile, in Iraq, it's bloody business as usual

Saturday, 22 January 2011

After a brief respite, Iraq was plunged back into violence this week with a series of bombings that highlighted the weakness of government forces to protect Iraq as US prepares to pack up and take its troops out of the country.

Crowd attacks Foreign Minister over 'war crime'

Saturday, 22 January 2011

Palestinian protesters hurled eggs at the French Foreign Minister during a visit to Gaza yesterday and narrowly missed hitting her with a shoe because they mistakenly believed she had called the capture of an Israeli soldier a "war crime".

Israel's top soldier faces 'land grab' investigation

Friday, 21 January 2011

A Government watchdog investigation into an alleged land grab by Israel's incoming military chief could threaten the appointment of the decorated general, a justice official said.

Beirut braced for street violence

Friday, 21 January 2011

Lebanese special police forces tightened security around the government palace and other official buildings yesterday amid growing fears that the country's political crisis could descend into street battles.

UAE: Camel 'shock jockey' pair held

Friday, 21 January 2011

Undercover agents in Dubai say they have found devices that deliver electric shocks to racing camels to make them run faster.

Blair faces Chilcot as Iraq bombs kill 130

Friday, 21 January 2011

tony blair's appearance at the Chilcot inquiry today comes with a backdrop of violence in Iraq where at least 130 people were killed in three militant attacks on successive days.

Google Tehran: downloads from internet giant available in Iran for the first time

Thursday, 20 January 2011

Google has begun offering downloads of its Chrome, Picasa and Earth programmes in Iran for the first time after a US embargo banning their transfer was relaxed.

Ambulance used in Iraq suicide bomb attack

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

A suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed ambulance into an Iraqi guard force headquarters today killing at least seven people.

Suicide bomb kills 52 police recruits in Iraq

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police recruits yesterday, killing at least 52 people.

Peace process under threat as Barak fights his party

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Catrina Stewart: Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, abruptly quit as leader of the Labour Party.