<img src="https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Politics_logo_01-scaled.jpg" alt="PoliticsUK logo" title="PoliticsUK logo" class="header_logo"/>

arab spring

sponsoredBlogvideoopinion former

Before the success of the Quartet, Tunisia's democratic transition was on the brink of chaos

The Nobel Peace Prize proves Arab countries can become healthy democracies

sponsoredNewsvideoopinion former

The reach of British power: Time to reassess 'force projection'?

Security after the war on terror: Britain urged to give up on ‘force projection’

sponsoredComment & Analysisvideoopinion former

Alastair Sloan: 'In a part of the world where religion is so important, it's unlikely in the near future that any populist movement will not in some way incorporate Islamist thinking'

Comment: Cameron’s Muslim Brotherhood investigation is just a favour to the Saudis

The PM offers satisfaction to Sisi’s murderous Egyptian regime and Saudi Arabia with an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood

sponsoredComment & Analysisvideoopinion former

Kristyan Benedict: 'The overall humanitarian situation in Syria remains calamitous'

Comment: The medieval punishment of Syria continues, ignored by the world

Tens of thousands are enduring total collective imprisonment under pain of death in Syria and yet Westminster still has no sense of urgency

sponsoredComment & Analysisvideoopinion former

Ian Dunt: 'We are witnessing an unprecedented movement of peoples in the Middle East, against a backdrop of religious, tribal and political civil war.'

Comment: Miliband’s canny political attack provided a moral victory on Syrian refugees

sponsoredNewsvideoopinion former

Women take part in a protest against intervention in Syria. The threat of western involvement faded after a Commons vote.

Relief in western capitals as Syria’s chemical weapon equipment is destroyed

sponsoredNewsvideoopinion former

Room for debate? Polls shift slightly in favour of second Commons vote.

Hague and Alexander clash on Syria strategy as G20 looms

Latest articles

sponsoredComment & Analysisvideoopinion former

Syria intervention motion in full

Syria Commons motion in full

sponsoredComment & Analysisvideoopinion former

Ian Dunt: 'Just because something is often the case does not mean it is always the case'

Comment: The anti-war left’s response to Syria has been teenage and irresponsible

sponsoredComment & Analysisvideoopinion former

An opposition fighter holding a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) as his fellow comrades take cover from an attack by regime forces in Khanasser on Monday

Drums of war: As-it-happens

sponsoredComment & Analysisvideoopinion former

Stefan Wolff: 'The trajectory of any intervention in Syria would arguably be worse.'

Comment: There are no positive outcomes for military intervention in Syria

sponsoredNewsvideoopinion former

An Israeli woman shows her children how to put on a gas mask yesterday in Tel Aviv, amid tensions over possible military action in Syria

Syria military action looms as MPs recalled for crunch vote

sponsoredNewsvideoopinion former

A banner reads 'the army and the people are one' during a protest before the Egyptian revolution in 2011.

Labour: US must end military aid to Egypt

sponsoredBlogvideoopinion former

Jerusalem: The Jewish quarter

The weird variables of peace in the Middle East

sponsoredNewsvideoopinion former

Syria: A rebel fighter tries to avoid sniper fire in Aleppo earlier this year. The debate on whether to supply rebel forces with weapons is unlikely to die down.

Labour could break ranks on Hague’s Syria mission

sponsoredNewsvideoopinion former

The UK will be supporting but not arming rebels

UK recognises Syrian opposition

sponsoredComment & Analysisvideoopinion former

Ian Dunt: 'Who can blame our critics for saying that human rights are a shield for the west to hide its strategic calculations?'

Comment: Cameron’s Saudi trip betrays the victims of terrorism

sponsoredNewsvideoopinion former

A young protestor during a demonstration in Egypt during the Arab Spring. David Cameron was criticised for travelling to the country with arms dealers after the revolution.

Commons report: We should admit our foreign policy is hypocritical

sponsoredComment & Analysisvideoopinion former

Carl Miller: 'Like any young field, social media analysis is relatively unregulated by professional norms and standards'

Comment: Twitter will change our response to everything

Url Copied