Syria fights back with hack attacks

The Syrian regime's electronic army is hitting critical Western news organisations with disinformation.

Children lost in Syria's ruins

Young boys are being used as human shields; girls married off 'for their own protection'.

Mysterious phantom island disappears without a trace

For more than a decade it has featured on the world's maps.

Russian oil's high roller keeps low profile

The man behind the $28-billion TNK-BP deal is one of the most powerful figures of the Putin era

Georgian tycoon top of the trough

Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili has conceded that his party had lost an election to a coalition led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Syria's war is forging a skilled rebel army

Former civilians have been quickly picking up the tactics that will make them a formidable military force. Luke Harding reports.
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