How the Taliban took Afghanistan
The departure of US forces was followed by a rout of Afghan government forces. Now, after 20...
Podcasts de Middle East and North Africa
Inside Qatar 2022: the World Cup of politics and protest
Football’s governing body Fifa has tried to keep politics out of the World Cup – but there has...
Israel divided: Netanyahu’s coalition crisis
A cabinet split over military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews and large street protests demanding...
Refugees, in their own words – books podcast
On this week’s show, we walk with a group who are using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to tell the...
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Who is robbing Lebanon’s banks?
A spate of bank robberies has hit Beirut in recent weeks but they are heists with a twist: people...
Why do Dubai's princesses keep trying to run away?
Ola Salem discusses the divorce case of Princess Haya, who fled to London. Why do royal women...
The assassination of Qassem Suleimani – podcast
The US drone strike on Iran’s most influential general could transform the Middle East. Middle...
The gigantic cargo ship the Ever Given blocked the world’s busiest shipping lane for a week....
How a contested history feeds the Israel-Palestine conflict
Certain dates are seared into the minds of those who have tried to untangle the decades-long...
Human catastrophe unfolds in Israel and Gaza
Deadly assault by Hamas militants across southern Israel has been followed by devastating...
Bombs, boat sinkings and assassinations: is the Middle East descending into war?
Beyond the conflict in Gaza it has been a violent few weeks in the wider Middle East, from...
Should the UK stop arming Israel?
The killing of six international aid workers and their Palestinian driver this week has brought...
Abandoned at sea, the cargo crew adrift without wages, fuel or supplies: a look back
This week we are returning to some of our favourite episodes from 2019. When companies run into...
Will we need a Covid pass to get into the pub?
The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has announced plans for a domestic Covid-status...
Bashar al-Assad’s decade of destruction in Syria
Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has presided over a devastating civil war that has caused the...
Failure, fear and the threat of famine in Afghanistan
A whistleblower has accused the British government of abject failures in its efforts to manage...
The far-right radical in Israel’s new government
Itamar Ben-Gvir has spent a lifetime on the fringes of Israeli politics. He was once considered...
The oil company CEO running the next UN climate change summit
The UN’s annual climate conference is being dogged by scandal months before it even begins....
The secret plan to ‘hook’ the developing world on oil
As the Cop28 climate summit begins in Dubai today, a secret Saudi Arabian plan to get poorer...
The five brothers forced apart by the war in Syria – podcast
International correspondent Michael Safi tells Anushka Asthana how he tracked down five brothers...
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