Troubled times for 'peaceful' Jordan amid a volatile Middle East
When protests on a scale of the Arab spring that rocked the Middle East in 2011 swept Jordan this month, alarm bells rang loudly across the region.
Can a new Middle East war be avoided amid rising tension in the Levant?
On the drive north up Lebanon’s Mediterranean coastal road from the capital Beirut the rash of billboards tell a story.
Maduro feels the heat as pressure ramped up on Venezuelan leader
Ortega Diaz was a supporter of late president Hugo Chavez,
Can Ramaphosa deliver South Africans to the promised land?
Late at night in a bleak, deserted office in the African darkness three decades ago, a young black union leader sought help from this white foreign correspondent.
Man who would be king walks a tightrope towards moderate Islam
Demure, veiled and black-clad women slip quietly to the toilet as an aircraft leaves Saudi Arabian airspace. They return to their seats in glamorous haute couture dresses and expensive jewellery.
Iran slowly builds a land bridge of allies to the Mediterranean coast
WHEN Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looks west from his Tehran residence, he can be forgiven a wry smile.
ANALYSIS: Hope for Syria turns to biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War
As a dusty wind blows across the arid Jordanian desert 50 miles south of the Syrian border, row upon row of white metal houses in neat lines emerge from the haze. Women dressed in black hijabs, some with niqab veils, carry water from shared taps or shopping from the few stores back to their new homes.
Modern India facing challenges from economic expansion and growing world importance
IN the elegant oak-panelled splendour of the Calcutta Club, thoughts turn back to Indian independence.
Monsoons and a flood of refugees add to Bangladesh’s political woe
THE source of death and destruction in South Asia frames neatly in the windscreen of a Boeing 777 as it flies at 37,000ft over India and Bangladesh.
Icon's grip on power weakens by the day amid slow pace of reform
WHEN Aung San Suu Kyi addressed half a million people at Yangon’s iconic Shwedagon Pagoda three decades ago, her defiant call for democracy in military-ruled Myanmar marked her for greatness.
