07/31/2020 - 1:00am

France’s African forever war The country has been fighting jihadis in the Sahel for six long years — and there's no end in sight

John Lewis-Stempel

17.07

Shamima Begum will never leave Britain The former ISIS bride has been allowed to appeal the decision to strip her of citizenship. But whatever happens, we lose

Douglas Murray

22.06

Will Libya tear Nato apart? The North African state is a disaster zone slowly sucking in the region's belligerents

Aris Roussinos

24.02

How France became the most anti-Semitic country in the West Forty years ago, violence against Jews was unknown but today huge numbers are fleeing

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

08.01

How Trump handed victory to Qasem Soleimani The killing of the Iranian general has polarised the Iraqi Shia against America — and ceded martyrdom to a murderer

Maurice Glasman

25.12

For Iraq’s Christians, this year might be their last Sixteen years after the disastrous invasion, and two years after ISIS were defeated, the community faces its end

Reine Hanna

23.12

2014: the year western power collapsed American weaknesss in the Middle East was exposed as ISIS and Assad ripped Syria apart

Helen Thompson

25.10

How did Naomi Wolf get away with it for so long? The author's error-ridden latest book is being pulped, but the public intellectual has long peddled sloppy stats and conspiracy theories

Douglas Murray

22.10

Will the Evangelicals dump Trump? Conservative Christians have made a Faustian pact with the president, but his desertion of the Kurds may lose him the 'mandate of heaven'

Christopher Rhodes

10.10

What did the ancient Mesopotamians ever do for us? From depression cures to egotistical Trumpian kings and angry customer complaints, we can still relate to the lives of people living four millennia ago

Moudhy Al-Rashid

12.01

Under-reported: Change in Saudi Arabia

Nus Ghani

31.12

Under-reported: The free world’s turning of the tide against Islamic militantism

Nile Gardiner