Mid-East

The International Institute for Strategic Studies has announced the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait will open its Regional Security Summit in Bahrain.

What has Iraq got that the US doesn’t? The world’s most coveted dates. Two men are fighting to export them...

Plans for a commodity exchange for oil trading in Iran won't undermine the dollar’s supremacy in the oil markets, its architect says...

First the purge, then the surge, now the urge - to withdraw…

UN appeals for £30m in emergency aid as Iraqi refugee crisis escalates. Syria and Jordan struggle to cope as thousands enter...

Violence in Iraq claimed the lives of 32 journalists in 2006, the deadliest year for media workers in a single country ever...

A journalist and resident of burning Beirut gives her account of life in the previously promising metropolis-turned-warzone as the bombs rain down...

An array of startling pictures from freelancers on the frontline and surrounding areas of the conflict in Lebanon...

Tehran teenagers offer a rare glimpse of their lives, and tell of their hopes and aspirations for Iran...

The Palestinian Anti-Terrorist Act passed by the US House of Representatives is preventing aid agencies reaching Palestinians burdened by poverty and hardship...