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Revealed: Why there is an abandoned Ottoman tomb in remote India

Abdulmecid II, the last caliph, dreamt of resurrecting the caliphate abolished by Turkey

'The last stop of Europe': In a remote Greek port, live like a pasha in an Ottoman palace How did the Ottoman caliphate come to an end?

Starmer's fingerprints - not just the Tories' - are all over Britain's race riots

Why blaming the Israel lobby for western Middle East policies is misguided

How Netanyahu's Washington visit paved the way for regional war

UK Elections 2024

How Gaza sparked a new movement for justice in the UK

Rishi Sunak, his family, and India's far right

Is Israel going the way of the Crusaders?

Israel's war on Gaza

The message of Israel’s torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians

Israel's war on Gaza

Francesca Albanese: 'International law is on a knife's edge' over Gaza inaction

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Syria war: Inside the world of HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani

A prayer for Lydd: Maps and memories that the Nakba could never erase

Gaza Under Attack

Israel-Gaza: Was the latest assault a tipping point in the Palestinian struggle?

'Screwdriver': The secret British plan to abandon Bosnia as Srebrenica fell

Lewis Hamilton and the battle for Formula One's place in the Gulf

The Tories are coming for the BBC

From Balfour to Johnson: How hypocrisy and skulduggery define British policy on Palestine

Uighur activists: Stuck between Chinese persecution and US imperialism

'We can't speak': 10 years on, Bahrain's democracy movement has been crushed

Adnan Oktar: The rise and fall of a Turkish sex cult leader

Caliphate: How the New York Times' Islamic State scoop unravelled

‘An honorary Muslim’: The police spy who monitored London's mosques in plain sight

France: The war on Islam and the new security state

Qassem Soleimani

Soleimani's shadow: How the general's death upended Iranian strategy in Iraq

The power of soil: How our precarious climate shaped the Arab Spring

Labour antisemitism: Why it has become impossible to criticise Israel