Syria is at a “major turning point”, said ...

SEVEN TIMES IN EIGHT DAYS, U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD Trump promised to come to the aid of Iranian protesters if the country’s authoritarian regime began killing them in the streets. When it did—slaying th

In January 1979, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi fled Iran with “his wife, some jewels and a clod of earth”, says author Christopher de Bellaigue in the Financial Times. A measure of how the country’s Isla

The protests in Iran, now in their third week, have erupted across every province, spreading to more than 180 towns and cities and “cutting across class, ethnic and regional lines”, says Sanam Vakil i

Donald Trump has backed down from his threats of steep tariffs on European allies and the use of military force to take Greenland, saying that he has agreed the “framework of a future deal” with Nato

The Board of Peace Controversy of the week ...