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A boy rides his bike past destroyed cars and houses in a neighbourhood of Mosul earlier this year. AP Photo

Investigating the deep psychological scars experienced by children in war zones

Significant change can be brought about by providing all children with support, writes Zaid Tabaza

April 20, 2018
Rubble fills a street in Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus. Hassan Ammar / AP

Iran may learn to its cost the grave danger of provoking Trump

The US president is increasingly using the threat of America’s overwhelming military firepower to achieve his desired political result, writes Con Coughlin

April 19, 2018
Controversial politician Enoch Powell pictured on Westminster Bridge in view of the Houses of Parliament as he prepares to return to the House of Commons following his resignation from the Conservative Party, London, October 23rd 1975. (Photo by Roger Jackson/Central Press/Getty Images)

Five decades after the 'rivers of blood' speech, prejudice still festers in Britain 

As the Windrush controversy deepens, the misguided UK feels it can waltz back into the lives of the Commonwealth nations, writes Shelina Janmohamed

April 19, 2018
A Syrian child uses a bucket to bale out water from his tent at a refugee camp on the outskirts of the town of Zahle in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Joseph Eid / AFP

How Lebanon is teaching refugees to thrive, not just survive, and transforming public perceptions in the process

The work done by projects like Maps and the Relief Centre is essential to stop the perception of refugees as "others" outside the bounds of conventional society and a burden on it, writes Henrietta Moore

April 19, 2018
Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service making the victory gesture as members hold the black ISIS flag upside down outside the destroyed Al-Nuri Mosque in the Old City of Mosul after the area was retaken in June last year. Fadel Senna / AFP

We have not yet seen the full impact of ISIS sleeper cells coming back to life

As its pamphlet shows, the extremist group is reforming underground with new tactics to inflict fresh damage in Iraq and Syria, writes Hassan Hassan

April 18, 2018
A flypast in Tel Aviv on Israel's Independence Day anniversary celebrations. This year Israel marks 70 years of statehood amid protests from Palestinians and internal divisions. Ariel Schalit / AP

As Israelis mark the founding of a Jewish state on Independence Day, troubling questions persist about the cost to Palestinians

Those questions are especially pertinent in the wake of Israeli sharpshooters killing and wounding hundreds of Palestinians involved in unarmed protests along the perimeter fence in Gaza, writes Jonathan Cook

April 18, 2018
A man just metres near the site of the chemical weapons attack in Douma, near Damascus, Syria. Hassan Ammar / AP

You don't have to be a pacifist or support the Syrian regime to wonder what was gained by the $200 million airstrikes

The problem with the strikes was the Goldilocks strategy adopted by the coalition, which simultaneously went too far and not far enough, writes Faisal Al Yafai

April 17, 2018
The Duchess of Cornwall talks to guests at the Commonwealth Big Lunch in London. John Stillwell / WPA Pool/Getty

With Brexit looming, Britain is looking for new Commonwealth allies

The Commonwealth is the obvious answer to how the UK will prosper when it inevitably ends up with a trading relationship with the EU inferior to the one it enjoys as a member, writes Sholto Byrnes

April 17, 2018
Robotic exoskeletons like the ReWalk, on display here in Tokyo, are helping people to walk again. Shuji Kajiyama / AP

The power of two: how science and technology can be compatible in more ways than one

Partners in life and work, Mark Pollock and Simone George became creators and collaborators on a project to get him walking again after a horrific accident, writes Olivier Oullier

April 17, 2018
Women protesting in India this week to bring attention to rape and sexual violence cases. Raminder Pal Singh / EPA

The case of an eight-year-old rape victim says justice in India is meted out according to religion and class

The treatment of victims of crime seems to be determined by biography, geography and political expediency, writes Rashmee Roshan Lall

April 17, 2018