Lindsey Hilsum
It’s complicated: who’s on whose side in Syria and Iraq
There are so many different power blocs and interest groups in Iraq and Syria that it is almost impossible to predict where events might lead.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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Israel-Gaza crisis 2014 – story so far
A record of the main developments in Gaza since the crisis escalated at the end of June.
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Kurds: Iraq now ‘risks falling apart’
Kurdish ministers boycott the Iraq government after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accuses them of harbouring Islamic insurgents in Iraqi Kurdistan. So is peace in Iraq now impossible?
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Lindsey Hilsum
Salwa Bugaighis: Libyan human rights activist who took on Gaddafi
The Libyan human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis has been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in Benghazi on the day of the country’s general election.
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Is grand prix a lose-lose race for Bahrain’s royal family?
Bahrain’s royal family faces a lose-lose situation ahead of the grand prix: cancel it and lose face, or let it proceed and become a hook for adverse media coverage, writes activist Dr Ala’a Shehabi.
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Egypt: paving the way for General al-Sisi’s presidency?
Egypt’s political roadmap is altered so that the president will be elected before parliament is. It hastens the likely election of army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as head of state.
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Egypt revolt anniversary: twelve people killed
Twelve people are killed in Cairo, security sources say, as Egypt marks the third anniversary of the revolution that led to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
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Egypt’s poll a popularity contest for Sisi’s military
Today Egyptians vote again on a new constitution – a draft document that would leave the army’s powers intact and cast the Muslim Brotherhood back into the political wilderness.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Kerry and Lavrov: picking up the baton for peace in Syria
After August’s chemical attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, prospects for peace in Syria looked remote. But then Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his US counterpart, John Kerry, managed to pull the world back from the brink.
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Lindsey Hilsum
‘My son was killed here and I will stay here until I die too’
As they drove off, down another street littered with rubble and glass, I wondered how any Syrians, whatever their religion or political allegiance, would ever be able to live a normal life again.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Why Libya’s revolutionaries are the greatest threat to its revolution
Old scores are being settled in Libya as militias fight to assert their power in towns and cities across the country.
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What happened to the Arab Spring?
As Egyptians get deja vu at the trial of another deposed president, a Channel 4 News interactive graphic looks at what has happened more than two and a half years on from the Arab Spring.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Libyan PM kidnapping reveals state of country
Nothing exemplifies the state of Libya so much as a conversation I had with an analyst in Benghazi this morning, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
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With the Brotherhood in Egypt: from coup to crackdown
Thousands protested after the military ousted the Muslim Brotherhood’s President Morsi, and hundreds were killed in the crackdown that followed. This is filmmaker Mani’s account of what he saw.
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Arab uprisings through the eyes of cartoonists
Cartoons have been playing a major role in delivering powerful messages from within the Arab spring. Channel 4 News meets the illustrators “escaping censorship”.
