11 April 2013 Last updated at 00:28 GMT On the Edge, Kilani’s first feature, was inspired by true events Women film-makers from Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon have been honoured by the Birds Eye View Film Festival in London, [...]

10 April 2013 Last updated at 23:59 GMT Human Rights Watch arrived at some attack sites – such as this one in Azaz, Aleppo, last August – just hours after Syrian Air Force strikes The Syrian Air Force is carrying [...]

10 April 2013 Last updated at 23:12 GMT Article written by Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent More from Lyse Follow Lyse on Twitter Please turn [...]

10 April 2013 Last updated at 21:13 GMT President Hadi has taken several moves to extend control over the armed forces Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has removed the commander of an elite army unit, state TV has reported. Gen [...]

10 April 2013 Last updated at 22:08 GMT Religious ceremonies and prayer shawls are not allowed in the women’s section Access to Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, could be liberalised [...]

10 April 2013 Last updated at 21:04 GMT The Egyptian army had claimed it played a neutral role in the protests in January and February 2011 that swept away the regime of Hosni Mubarak A report leaked to a British newspaper appears [...]

The leader of Egypt’s Coptic Christians, Pope Tawadros II, has accused President Mohammed Morsi of “negligence” following deadly violence outside the main cathedral in Cairo. Several people died in clashes between Egypt’s [...]

‘The Gatekeepers’ is a documentary film which provides a rare glimpse into life inside Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security organization. The film brings together, for the first time, six former heads of Shine Bet, some of [...]

10 April 2013 Last updated at 14:15 GMT Rathimohan Lohini was one of the main female news anchors on a rebel-run Tamil news channel Rights groups are appealing to authorities in the UAE not to deport Sri Lanka journalist Rathimohan [...]

10 April 2013 Last updated at 14:54 GMT Al-Nusra has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the US The leader of the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group fighting in Syria, has pledged allegiance to the leader of al-Qaeda, [...]

10 April 2013 Last updated at 11:15 GMT Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani says Qatar will help Egypt Egypt has been offered an economic lifeline by Qatar, which will buy $3bn worth of its bonds. The cash will come [...]

Saudi Arabia is building a fence, over 1,000 miles long, in order to seal off its troubled frontier with Yemen. The BBC has been told by Saudi border guards that security on the Yemeni side of the border has all but disappeared since the revolutions [...]

10 April 2013 Last updated at 00:31 GMT By Nick Childs World Affairs Correspondent, BBC News The report highlights an “alarming” rise of executions in Iraq, where [...]

10 April 2013 Last updated at 06:59 GMT The worst-hit villages were poorly built, with homes constructed from hand-made bricks and clay More than 80 aftershocks have hit south-west Iran following Tuesday’s 6.1 magnitude [...]

Saudi Arabia is building a fence, over 1,000 miles long, in order to seal off its troubled frontier with Yemen. The BBC has been told by Saudi border guards that security on the Yemeni side of the border has all but disappeared since the revolutions [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 17:42 GMT By Jim Muir BBC News, Beirut The video shows Sheikh Muhammad al-Bouti speaking in a Damascus mosque seconds before the explosion A video [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 15:31 GMT By Jeremy Bowen BBC Middle East editor Baroness Thatcher was closely involved in the talks that led to the al-Yamamah arms [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 15:50 GMT Ali Zeidan’s government is battling to rein in militias that fought Col Gaddafi An aide to Libya’s Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been freed after being kidnapped nine days ago, [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 19:06 GMT Thousands of illegal immigrants are reportedly trying to slip from impoverished Yemen into Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s wealthiest countries Saudi Arabia is building a giant border [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 15:07 GMT Jihadists have been at the centre of much of the recent fighting in Syria Al-Qaeda in Iraq has confirmed for the first time that a prominent jihadist group fighting in Syria is part of [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 15:33 GMT The violence was the latest in a spate of clashes between Muslims and Christians in Egypt The leader of Egypt’s Coptic Christians has accused the country’s president of “negligence” [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 19:30 GMT Thousands are thought to live in the area affected by the earthquake A 6.3 magnitude earthquake has killed more than 30 people and injured 850 in south-west Iran, officials say. Rescue [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 08:11 GMT By Carine Torbey BBC Arabic, Beirut Lebanon says there are more than twice the UN’s number of Syrian refugees in the country On [...]

Ten years ago American tanks entered the Iraqi capital and pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein. It was a defining moment for the country as this symbol of an era was dramatically removed. The BBC’s Rafid Jaboori returned to Baghdad [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 11:16 GMT The law of retribution means the victim can demand his attacker suffers the same punishment as he caused Saudi Arabia has denied reports that a court in the kingdom has ordered a punishment [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 10:07 GMT Palestinians have been holding sit-ins outside the Unrwa offices in Gaza The UN says it is reopening its food distribution centres in the Gaza Strip after they closed following violent [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 10:47 GMT Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only Iran says it has begun operations at two uranium mines and a uranium ore processing plant, furthering its capacity to produce [...]

9 April 2013 Last updated at 02:31 GMT Nigel Ely said the statue was intact apart from its head when he saw it Exactly 10 years after the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled in Baghdad’s main square, a former SAS soldier [...]

8 April 2013 Last updated at 20:30 GMT Both sides alleged the use of chemical weapons in the Khan al-Assal area Syria has rejected what it calls an attempt by the UN to broaden a probe into the alleged use of chemical weapons [...]

8 April 2013 Last updated at 16:36 GMT Relatives of the detainees outside the federal courthouse in Abu Dhabi A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced an activist to 10 months in jail after he tweeted from a courtroom [...]