The Middle East Post-Assad

In Gaza, desperate relatives are searching for their family members: 11,000 people are thought to be missing.

Reports from international bodies document the torture and inhuman conditions inflicted on Palestinians held in Israeli detention.

After two years of onslaught by the IDF, the population of Gaza is now starving as a deliberate tactic of war by Israel.

With Netanyahu’s government wanting to annex the West Bank entirely, how credible is the two-state solution?

An overview of the geopolitical situation in the Middle East following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th 2023 has profoundly affected Israeli society with attitudes hardening towards Palestinians.

Every morning, Palestinian journalist Islam al-Zaanoun puts on her bullet-proof vest and continues to report the news under Israeli bombardment.

18 months after 7 October, Israeli society is still stuck in its hostage nightmare.

Orphaned, missing limbs, deprived of school or forced to work: this is the plight of children in Gaza.

Religious ultra-nationalist youth dream of a Greater Israel with no space for the Palestinians.

Hamas and Israel have still not reached agreement on a new hostage-for-prisoner exchange.

There are thought to be 50,000 pregnant women currently in Gaza where just staying alive is a struggle.

Holocaust survivor Nelly Prezma is nearly 100 and lives with her family on a Kibbutz close to the Gaza strip.

Hamas, with its extremist ideology, has never stopped advocating for the destruction of Israel. Why?

Mohammed Alaloul, a photographer for the Turkish Anadolu Agency news service, was at work when he learned that his neighborhood had been hit by an Israeli airstrike.

Mouna lives in Gaza but is stranded in Jordan.

The war in Gaza threatens the cohesion of Israeli society.

As Gazan’s rebuild their homes after the Hamas-Israeli conflict, they also try and rebuild their mental health.

Palestinians in the camps in Lebanon are watching the bitter war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza with concern but they are divided between Hamas and Fatah supporters.

In the north of the West Bank, near Nablus, a new episode in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being played out:

This is the story of how a refugee taking a picture with Chancellor Angela Merkell morphed into a court case against Facebook

On Sunday 8 December 2024, Syrians woke up to the news that Bashar Al Assad had fled the country.

A look back at the Jeffrey Epstein's life and how the Epstein Files are exposing corruption at the highest level.

Since 1943, Lebanon has been caught up in the conflicts of its neighbours.

Denmark faces two serious threats: Donald Trump's predatory ambitions over Greenland, and intimidation from Russia.

Rare earths are the essential resource of the twenty first century, needed for electric cars, smart phones, and renewable energy.

Reports from international bodies document the torture and inhuman conditions inflicted on Palestinians held in Israeli detention.

The Iranian regime is under threat both from outside by the United States and Israel, and from inside: many Iranians want an end to authoritarianism. 

Drones are reshaping modern warfare in conflicts around the world.

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

Vanessa Wagner performs Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes with dancers from the Accrorap company.

They are reclaiming their bodies and freely expressing their sexuality: A focus on sex positive popstars in contemporary culture.

Bach’s St John Passion from Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie with the NDR vocal ensemble and Concerto Köln conducted by Klaas Stok.

Paris city hall is pursuing a green traffic policy: Less cars, more bicycles. But not everybody is pleased.

White sand, white citrus blossom, white houses – Spain’s Costa Blanca is aptly named.

An encounter between piano and dance in a former foundry.

Using the latest technology, researchers are discovering the bright colours of ancient Greek art and architecture.  

A complex feeling that is both problematic and useful, the latest research on boredom.

How can we age well? Ronja von Rönne trys to find out by talking to chimney sweep Norbert Skrobek, who is close to retirement and Monika Gutte who defies age with a zest for life