Full Coverage: Middle East

30.03.2009 Disclosure that in the first nine months of last year Britain licensed the sale of military equipment to Israel worth £27 million today brought a call for the UK government to stop arming Israel.

26.03.2009 A 17-year-old Iraqi pianist is putting on a recital at the Wigmore Hall in London to raise awareness about her campaign to set up the first National Youth Orchestra of Iraq.

24.03.2009 Iraqis continued to be the largest nationality seeking asylum in the industrialised world last year, even though the number fell 10 per cent, says the UN refugee agency.

16.03.2009 Iraq’s Justice Minister is urged to stop the execution of 128 death row prisoners, amid reports that the authorities are planning to start executing them in batches of up to 20 starting this week.

11.03.2009 Human rights activists in the Middle East and North Africa still face persecution and repression, more than 10 years after the UN called on all states to support the work of people defending human rights.

08.03.2009 Mothers, wives, widows and daughters of Iraq remain caught in the grip of a silent emergency, a new survey shows.

02.03.2009 David Hare will perform his own work, Wall, drawing on his trips to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, at the Royal Court on 12-14 March.