Violence is escalating in Israel and Palestine but no one is sure whether this is another uprising.
As aid dwindles, more refugees are risking the trip to Europe – or taking their chances back in Syria.
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is ‘anti-Semitic’ and a ‘first-rate strategic threat’.
Polls suggest that the embattled Israeli leader could lose power in next week’s election.
Journalists in Gaza City watched in horror as the Israelis killed what were clearly young boys.
Hordes of Gazans have fled their homes following Israel warning that it would "strike with might" against what it says are rocket-launching sites.
Brutalised civilians recall the horrific toll of the last Israeli invasion and fear it will happen again.
Public opinion, like old generals, is always preparing to fight the last war.
The central issue with drone strikes comes down to how combatants are identified and what efforts are made to protect civilians.
There is no place for President Bashar al-Assad in any future Syrian government, diplomats say, as Russia and China agree to transition plan.
Atrocities such as the killing of children become an ordinary act of violence with a sectarian component.
Serbian police have arrested Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader wanted by the UN for war crimes committed during the Bosnian war.
Myths make large, but reality diminishes. On Saturday night, the Pentagon showed Osama bin Laden alive in four video clips.
Now that Bashar al-Assad is crushing opposition with terrible brutality, no one in the West knows how to deal with him.
The immediacy and democracy of social media have been crucial to the success of uprisings.
As the British and US governments ponder their next move, the <i>Observer</i>’s <b>Peter Beaumont</b> examines the four most likely scenarios.
Rwanda has a plan to prevent any return to the genocide of 1994: connect 100 000 children to the outside world with their own laptops.
He has lost his family and only the UN guards at his camp now keep him safe. But when they go, what will happen?
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/ 31 January 2010
Somalis say that, beyond the facade of harsh and rigid piety, the group robs and kills and sexually assaults with impunity.
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/ 17 January 2010
There is an expression in China: "Kill the chicken before the monkey." Target the weak and vulnerable, it means, to frighten the strong and many.
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/ 10 January 2010
In Yemen, Somalia and beyond, the lawless, strife-torn region has provided disturbing evidence that its myriad problems cannot be ignored.
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/ 13 September 2009
With liHawa Hassan comes leading three donkeys, accompanied by two female relatives and a handful of the family’s smallest children.
On its coast, Gaza’s limitations are marked by a different fence where the bars are Israeli gunboats.
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/ 12 January 2001
Controversy has flared up over the use of depleted uranium ammunition in the Balkans War.