What if a virus were ever used as a WMD?
We ain’t seen nothing yet
Paul Wood
Paul Wood was a BBC foreign correspondent for 25 years, in Belgrade, Athens, Cairo, Jerusalem, Kabul and Washington DC. He has won numerous awards, including two US Emmys for his coverage of the Syrian civil war
Monday
Friday
Will coronavirus lead to a US war with Iran?
Tehran’s virus troubles could allow Shia militias to attack US forces in Iraq
Monday
Andy Khawaja: ‘the whistleblower’
Andy Khawaja is charged with campaign finance violations. He says there’s a bigger story
Wednesday
How far will Trump go in Iran?
The Tehran students were chanting in the streets: ‘Our enemy is right here, they’re lying that it’s America’
Thursday
What does ‘do us a favor’ mean?
It would be interesting to hear from Parnas and from Giuliani, from Hyde and from Bolton
Tuesday
Iran begins its ‘fierce revenge’
The question now is what Trump’s next move will be
Friday
Iraq may now have to choose between America and Iran
From our UK edition
To be fair to president Donald Trump, he has not rushed to confront with Iran. Last June, he stopped airstrikes from going ahead – the US military ‘cocked and loaded’ – after a US surveillance drone was shot down and after Iranian actions threatened international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. He did not –
Monday
Where did the money come from for Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine operations?
The curious relationships among those helping to dig up dirt on Joe Biden
Monday
The shallow state
A real Deep State would have stopped Trump winning in the first place
Thursday
Pax Russica: as Trump abandons Syria’s Kurds, Russia is ready to expand its empire
From our UK edition
While American troops were hurriedly leaving north-eastern Syria, a young female Kurdish politician called Hervin Khalaf was pulled from her car and executed by the side of the road. Actually, the Kurdish media said she was raped and then stoned to death. They blamed one of the Arab militias being used by Turkey in its
Monday
Felix Sater, superspy
Should we believe Trump’s former business partner?
Monday
The US will pay for abandoning the Kurds
Trump’s credibility gap
Monday
Donald Trump’s blunderful presidency
If there’s a rake in the Rose Garden, Trump will step on it
Thursday
Katharine Gun: the spy who tried to stop the Iraq war
From our UK edition
In his memoir of office, Decision Points, George W. Bush writes about going to see Tony Blair in the Azores in the last days before the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It was a crisis meeting because they had failed to get a second UN resolution, to give legal cover for the war. This was
Wednesday
Hold the Nobel
Even before Trump and Kushner unveil their Middle East peace plan, the ‘deal of the century’ is dead
Thursday
Letter From Lebanon
From our UK edition
Look down from the mountains outside Beirut and, on most days, you’ll see a grey blanket of smog choking the city. The smog comes from diesel generators: almost every building in Lebanon is hooked up to one because of rolling power cuts. This isn’t because Israel bombed one of the country’s few power stations in
Wednesday
Mueller testifies – Trump wins
The special counsel’s performance evokes sympathy – but the president emerges stronger as a result
Friday
What to ask Mueller
The special counsel, like Garbo, just wants to be left alone. But his report leaves some very important questions unanswered
Friday
Trump’s Iran gamble
Will the first consequence of a US attack on Iran be war between Israel and Lebanon?
Thursday
The brutality of the Isis Beatles
From our UK edition
Beirut Television cameras get everywhere these days. Or maybe that was always true. Gore Vidal, the grand old man of American letters, wrote a book in which NBC gets the rights to the crucifixion, live from Golgotha, with St Paul as the ‘anchorperson’. So it was only faintly bizarre when CNN ‘crossed’ to a prison
