A reimagining of the classic American story One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is about to take to the London stage. The story, written in the 1960s as a commentary on America’s reckoning with state ...

The US bombs Iran’s key oil infrastructure – Kharg Island – as Donald Trump calls for the UK and allies to help secure the ...

We spoke to Dr Bader Al Saif, who used to be a deputy chief of staff for the Prime Minister of Kuwait. He’s worked in the oil and gas sector and is now an assistant professor of history at Kuwait ...

The Pentagon now admits one of its missiles could have been responsible for a strike on a school in Southern Iran that killed at least 165 people – the majority of them primary school-aged girls.

Amid heightened international tensions, including the Middle East war, Nato is carrying out exercises in the Arctic in ...

Two members of an Iranian Kurdish militia were killed this afternoon when an Iranian drone hit their position in Iraq. It ...

The Petrol Retailers Association has met the Chancellor and energy secretary in Downing Street – despite threatening to pull ...

Reports in US media say a detachment of Marines and a Navy assault ship are on their way to the Middle East. It comes as ...

Leon Panetta served as Defence Secretary and Director of the CIA under President Obama. We spoke to him earlier and began by asking him if he believed the administration had thought through how the ...

Lebanese officials said over 100 children are among the 773 people who have been killed so far by Israeli airstrikes. The UN chief Antonio Guterres has launched a $300m appeal to support the hundreds ...

The government’s Social Mobility Tsar Alan Milburn has called for urgent action to tackle the crisis in youth unemployment and the almost one million young people in the UK without work, education or ...

But any police response to protests – either static or moving – is subject to their duty, under the Human Rights Act 1998, not to “disproportionately interfere with protesters’ rights to freedom of ...