Have the Houthis gone rogue?
The US and Britain really didn’t think they had a choice about bombing Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on…
Can the killing of innocent civilians ever be justified?
Israel has made the first, rather tentative, moves of its ground operation against Hamas – but there’s nothing tentative about…
Can Israel’s hostages be saved?
The last message that Shaked Haran saw from her father was just after 7.30 a.m. on the Saturday of the…
What Iran gains from the conflict in Israel
What Iran gains from provoking Israel
Prigozhin sent ‘to hell’, but who gave the order?
As the first reports came in that Yevgeny Prigozhin had been killed, I spoke to Marat Gabidullin, who was a…
What really happened between Putin and Prigozhin?
What went on between Putin and Prigozhin?
Prigozhin’s bid for death or glory
Up until this point, it was possible to believe that Putin was tolerating, or even orchestrating Yevgeny Prigozhin’s increasingly outspoken…
How Saudi Arabia bought the world
How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
The dangerous shadow war between Iran and Israel
The covert war between Iran and Israel
Meet the architect behind ‘Putin’s palace’
Meet the architect accused of building Putin’s $1 billion property
Is Iran at a turning point?
Is Iran at a turning point?
How Syria became the world’s most profitable narco state
The drug that’s funding the Syrian regime
Cornered: could Putin go nuclear?
Will Putin push the button to save himself?
When the Queen worked her magic on the BBC
The Queen and Prince Philip had written their names in the visitors’ book at a country house where I was…
Is Biden ready to let MBS get away with murder?
Is Biden ready to let MBS get away with murder?
Europe’s last dictator: Lukashenko’s fate depends on Ukraine
The fate of Lukashenko depends on Ukraine
Chernobyl Two?
The electricity supply to the ruined nuclear plant at Chernobyl in Ukraine has been cut off. According to one knowledgeable…
Meet the 72-year-old British colonel taking on the Russians in Ukraine
Some citizens of Nato countries are in Ukraine to fight. They are members of the new International Brigade the Ukrainians…
‘Help us, before it’s too late’
Western Ukraine Outside a military recruiting centre in Lviv, Egor Grushin, one of Ukraine’s most famous classical pianists, was waiting…
Will Putin now roll on to Kiev?
The White House told us with absolute certainty that there would be an invasion of Ukraine this week — instead…
Russian roulette: is Moscow’s bluff backfiring?
Is Moscow’s bluff backfiring?
Putin’s big bluff
My first visit to Ukraine was in 1994. We drove to a village about three hours south of Kiev. The…
Why we still need the BBC
The BBC must ask itself if Nadine Dorries has a point
Daughters for sale: Afghans are growing desperate
Afghans are growing desperate
Colin Powell: A great man – and a failure
My memory of Colin Powell feels personal, even though we were 6000 miles apart at the time. I was in…
