French politics is starting to give off a ...

Iran and the US: a history of enmity

Leadership contenders are lining up following the death of Iran’s supreme leader, including the son of the toppled shah, while the Islamic Republic persists

The ‘gateway to the West’ has for years become a relative sanctuary from the onslaught on Ukraine’s frontline. But the city and region’s long history has seen it at the centre of countless conquests

By spring 1941, the Afrika Korps was advancing across eastern Libya towards Egypt and the Suez Canal. But a dusty port town lay in their path

Harrowing images reveal civilians being killed, starved and forced from their homes, living each day in fear amid Sudan’s civil war