Jeremy Bowen is a journalist and television presenter ... The intelligence network’s blunders in the Middle East have been disastrous – but it has a vital role in… Veterans still proudly wear their ...

Proudly, he said the arak, an aniseed based spirit popular across the Middle East, came from the Assad family's home town in the hills behind the port of Latakia. Outside, his unit was pounding ...

Presumably the United States - the new owners of Trump's "Riviera of the Middle East" - would have to use force to remove them. After America's catastrophic intervention in Iraq in 2003 ...

The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen hears first-hand accounts of the revolution which started in Tunisia, gained hold in Egypt and spread across the rest of the region ...

Some - perhaps many - Palestinians in Gaza might be tempted to get out if they had the chance. But even if a million left, as many as 1.2m others would still be there.