CMEC blog

Writing for CMEC, Jason Pack, argues for greater UK participation in Libya.

Sheikh Khalifa Al-Nahyan will be hosted by the Queen at Windsor Castle. He will meet David Cameron on Wednesday.

The 1,000-year-old minaret of Aleppo’s Umayyad Mosque has collapsed due to clashes between Syrian rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

The EU’s anti-terror chief has told the BBC that hundreds of Europeans are now fighting with rebel forces in Syria against Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

France’s embassy in Libya was hit by a car bomb early on Tuesday morning, injuring two guards and causing serious damage to the building.

At least 80 people, including women and children, have been killed in Damascus, according to Syrian activists.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Western nations will suffer the consequences for what he said was their support for al Qaeda militants in his country’s civil war.

Southeast Iran was hit Tuesday by the most powerful earthquake to strike the country in 40 years, with its reverberations felt as far away as India.

The heads of five major UN agencies have issued a rare joint appeal to the international community to do much more to end “cruelty and carnage” in Syria.

More than a dozen bomb attacks rock Iraq, claiming at least 19 lives, as the country prepares for elections.

A new report published by Human Rights Watch states that the Syrian government is deliberately targeting civilians in airstrikes.

A powerful earthquake has struck close to Iran’s only nuclear power station, killing at least 37 people and injuring 850.

Bashar al-Assad’s government has said it will not accept a team of UN chemical weapons inspectors in protest at its broad mandate.

Baroness Thatcher, Britain’s greatest post-war Prime Minister, and under whose premiership CMEC was founded, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced.

Egyptian officials confirm two dead and over 90 injured in the latest wave of sectarian violence in the country.