While its Middle Eastern neighbours have flashed the cash or succumbed to Islamist influences, Oman has chosen a quieter, more steady path. But if Oman is to increase its international brand, challenges will also need to…

We kick off a new series on strategic flight paths, starting with Istanbul to Mogadishu.

What Sultan Qaboos of Oman uses to get around, why the African Union is having an identity crisis and how recent unrest has affected stock exchanges

The world goes to cyber-war, Brazil prepares a new rang of submarines and we meet Washington's man in Yangon.

Zimbabwe will see a violent election, Africa will begin to reject the IMF's prescriptions and all eyes will be on the new leader of the African Union.

When Walid Ataya left Lebanon for Dubai after last summer’s war, he never imagined that a year later he would be back. “I was offered a salary three times more than I was making in Beirut,” he says. “The decision to go was…

Whose defence spending has plunged and whose skyrocketed plus other news from the military world.

Saudi's Arabia's big weapons spend and a personnel shortage in the Polish Army.

Waking from the nightmare of war, occupation and civil unrest, Iraq has ambitious plans for the renovation and remodelling of its cities and infrastructure. The rebuiliding isn’t purely a physical process – a new mindset…

Bodyguards on room service in Mogadishu, a peek at Saudi lingerie laws and the next failed state.