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Hugh Macleod

January 2010

  • US and UK keep Yemen embassies shut for second day

  • Al-Qaida alert forces UK to close Yemen embassy

December 2009

  • Barack Obama

    US plots retaliatory strikes against al-Qaida in Yemen over plane bomber

    Obama expecting report on incident today as effort to find Nigerian's handlers continues
  • Al-Qaida member in Yemen

    Yemen is fertile territory for extremism as it tears itself apart

    Al-Qaida able to exploit tribal tensions in Yemen just as it does in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  • Al-Qaida: US support for Yemen crackdown led to attack

    US has increased military aid package to Yemen from less than $11m in 2006 to more than $70m in 2009

November 2009

  • Yemeni refugees

    Yemeni refugees caught up in Middle East's forgotten war

    Long-running conflict enters dangerous phase with thousands of Yemenis forced into refugee camps

September 2009

  • Saad Hariri, Lebanon's prime minister-designate, has resigned.

    Saad Hariri steps down as Lebanon's political crisis continues

    Prime minister-designate resigns after Hezbollah-led opposition rejects proposed cabinet

June 2009

  • Leaders worried by the rise of people power in Iran

    Iran's neighbours watch its political turmoil intently and what it might mean for Middle East


  • Supporters of Saad Hariri on the streets of Beirut

    Lebanon's ruling coalition hangs on to power

    US-backed governing alliance sees off strong challenge from Hezbollah in parliamentary elections
  • Supporters of Saad Hariri on the streets of Beirut

    Lebanon's ruling coalition claims election victory over Hezbollah

    US-backed, Sunni-led alliance celebrates upset against Shia party supported by Syria and Iran

December 2008

  • Russia offers fighter jets to Lebanon as gifts

    Moscow challenges US arms supply with biggest upgrade of Lebanese military since civil war

November 2008

  • Syria to share intelligence on terrorism after Miliband visit

    Deal breaks years of isolation following accusations of involvement in assassination of Lebanese premier

October 2008

  • Palestinian children

    Falafel kerfuffle in Beirut as ethnic food copyright becomes a tabbouleh subject

  • Tartous, Syria

    From Syrian fishing port to naval power base: Russia moves into the Mediterranean

August 2008

  • Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

    Middle East: Top Assad aide assassinated at Syrian resort

    Killing of top Syrian army officer triggers intense speculation about crisis over relations in region

  • Armed struggle is vindicated, say militants

    Hizbullah give hero's welcome to returned prisoner who was held for killing three Israelis

  • Qantar gets hero's welcome on return to Lebanon

    Samir Qantar, one of the Arab world's icons of armed struggle, has set foot on Lebanese soil to a hero's welcome

  • Israel-Hizbullah prisoner exchange: profiles

    Ian Black and Hugh Macleod look at the backgrounds of some of those due to be exchanged, and at one who is notable by his absence from the swap

  • Posters in Sidon, southern Lebanon, ahead of the release of Samir Kuntar

    Middle East: Israel exchanges Lebanese murderer for bodies of two captured soldiers

  • Israel to swap Lebanese prisoner for soldiers' remains

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