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A Syrian child receiving treatment at a hospital  following a chemical attack in Khan Sheikhun. Photograph: Mohamed al-Bakour/AFP Syrian regime to blame for April sarin attack – UN report
  • October 27, 2017, 18:03

Syria rejects report, claims it was compiled under instruction from western countries

Two-and-a-half-year-old Hala al-Nufi, who suffers from a metabolic disorder exacerbated by   food shortages, in  eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria, October 25th, 2017. Photograph: Bassam Khabieh/Reuters Siege of Damascus areas ‘may be war crime’ – UN rights chief
  • October 27, 2017, 14:53

Parties to conflict must allow food, medicine to reach 350,000 trapped people

Iraqi Kurds wave flags and chant slogans during a protest outside the US consulate in Irbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, on October 21st. Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images Kurds offer to suspend independence vote and hold talks with Baghdad
  • October 25, 2017, 09:21

Iraq says military campaign to continue after ‘illegal’ Kurdish independence referendum

Aleppo regeneration: solar-powered street lights in damaged eastern zone. Photograph: Michael Jansen Aleppo rebuilds itself from destruction of war
  • Michael Jansen
  • October 25, 2017, 01:00

Commercial and leisure activities return to Syrian city as half a million people drift back

Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and president Reuven Rivlin: Mr Netanyahu has accused the “left-wing media” of orchestrating a coup to topple the government. Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA Netanyahu’s Likud party hits back at Israel’s president over criticism
  • Mark Weiss
  • October 24, 2017, 18:32

Reuven Rivlin accuses government of undermining Israel’s democratic institutions.

At an abandoned factory at Deir al-Zor, the army displays thousands of weapons captured from Islamic State here and in the town of Mayadin, to the south. Surviving the siege: Islamic State on wane in Deir al-Zor
  • Michael Jansen
  • October 24, 2017, 01:00

Cruel ‘caliphate’ of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on skids amid Syrian army and Kurdish squeeze

Dubai: the Detained in Dubai group says Jamie Harron will take legal action against his accuser when he is eventually able to return to Britain Briton jailed for three months in Dubai for touching man’s hip
  • October 22, 2017, 18:34

Jamie Harron, who was arrested after incident in crowded bar, ‘angry, disappointed’

Wafa Mahmoud Yusif and her son Walid, with a photograph of her elder son, who was killed in the Syrian war. Photograph: Michael Jansen Rebuilding Homs: Finding hope in shops, the souk and a school
  • Michael Jansen
  • October 21, 2017, 05:11

Syria’s rehabilitation is under way, but the pace varies greatly between city, town and village

A suicide bomber killed at least 39 people inside a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday night. A second attack took place in Ghor province. Suicide bombers kill at least 72 at Afghanistan mosques
  • October 20, 2017, 18:28

Attack in Kabul took place as Shia worshippers gathered for Friday prayers

Kurdish peshmarga near Altun Kupri, between Kirkuk and Erbil, Iraq on Friday.  The area is considered part of the “disputed territories” claimed by both Kurds and Baghdad. Photograph: Azad Lashkari/Reuters Iraqi and Kurdish forces clash as Baghdad advance continues
  • Erika Solomon
  • October 20, 2017, 16:27

Fighting risks escalating crisis that pits two of US’s main regional allies against each other

Ibrahim Halawa celebrates moments after his acquittal by an anti-terrorism court at the Wadi Natrun prison outside Cairo on September 18th. Photograph: Declan Walsh/The New York Times Halawa’s maltreatment in Egypt prison fits wider pattern of abuses
  • Paul Cullen
  • October 20, 2017, 11:13

Divergence between those who emphasise human rights and those prioritise Egypt’s stability

Displaced Iraqi Kurds people fleeing violence in the northern Kirkuk province take shelter in an unfinished housing project in Irbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on Thuraday. Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images Kurdish leaders ask for world’s help as 100,000 flee Kirkuk
  • October 19, 2017, 19:13

UN concerned at reports of Kurds being forcibly displaced as Iraqi army advances

Men suspected of being Islamic State fighters are searched at a security screening centre near Kirkuk, Iraq, on October 1st. Photograph: Ivor Prickett/The New York Times Isis may emerge in lethal new form after loss of ‘caliphate’
  • October 19, 2017, 09:39

On retreat in Syria and Iraq, Islamic State is set to return to its guerrilla roots

A boy rides a bicycle with an Iraqi flag  on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq.  Photograph: Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters Iraqi forces retake Kurdish-held territory near Mosul
  • October 18, 2017, 18:29

US urges Baghdad government to stop offensive

Children hold Palestinian flags as they celebrate after rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation deal, in the Gaza Strip on October 12th. Photograph:  Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters Palestinians dismiss Israel’s rejection of their reconciliation deal
  • Mark Weiss
  • October 18, 2017, 16:02

Israel passes resolution stating that peace talks will not resume unless Hamas disarms

Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces evacuate a civilian from a stadium after Raqqa was liberated from Islamic State militants in Syria on Tuesday. Photograph: Erik De Castro/Reuters Isis defeated in its Syrian ‘capital’ Raqqa, say US-backed forces
  • Erika Solomon
  • October 17, 2017, 20:04

Kurdish and Arab alliance to declare victory after four-month battle with Islamic State

Members of the Iraqi Kurdish security forces stand guard at a checkpoint in Altun Kupri, 40km south of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images Iraqi forces seize more territory in advance against Kurds
  • October 17, 2017, 12:24

Government advances in northern Iraq continue as Kurdish peshmerga withdraw

 A Yemeni man walks beneath photos of war victims during an outdoor gallery protesting Saudi-led military operations in the war-affected Arab country. Photo EPA/YAHYA ARHAB US kills dozens at Islamic State camps in Yemen, Pentagon says
  • October 16, 2017, 23:09

Camps used to train fighters using AK-47s, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers

Members of Iraqi federal forces  advance in military vehicles in Kirkuk, Iraq on Monday. Photograph: Reuters Iraqi forces seize control of Kirkuk from Kurds
  • October 16, 2017, 17:54

Attack on northern city amid soaring tensions following independence referendum

Ibrahim Talal, from Syria, on Agamy Beach, Alexandria: “This is not where I want to be.” Photograph: Peter Biro/European Union/Echo Syrian refugees’ road to Europe comes to a halt in Egypt
  • Paul Cullen
  • October 16, 2017, 01:00

More than 120,000 Syrians have been given asylum in Egypt but conditions are dismal

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