Bank says country ‘faces a dangerous depletion of resources, including human capital’

As Emmanuel Macron promises aid will not go to corrupt hands, locals say ruling class’s credibility is finished

Demonstrators mark start of uprising ’s fourth month and call for big protest on Saturday

Choice of veteran politician to head up new government meets with scorn and unrest

Revolutionaries calling for non-sectarian, neutral PM in country plagued by corruption

MBS came under pressure after the brutal murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi

Several ‘firsts’ in the Middle East country’s first parliamentary election in nine years

Resignation postponed: Mystery still shrouds PM’s two-week sojourn in Saudi Arabia

Former ‘mad general’ Michel Aoun has come to symbolise Lebanese co-existence to some

The country’s system creates power-sharing among the main confessional communities

Election of military man (81) with support of Syria ends 2½ years of political stalemate

Hopes for a free and democratic Arab world have drowned in the blood of 470,000 dead Syrians

Riyadh cancels €3.6 billion grant for buying arms

Class resentment and drought fuelled conflict, which grew in to a proxy war