Michael Safi

The group of Israelis that are planning for beachfront homes in the strip. Bethan McKernan and Ruth Michaelson report

After two months of total war and terrible destruction, an uneasy peace has fallen on Lebanon. Will Christou reports

Foreign correspondent Ruth Michaelson explains how President Bashar al-Assad’s government lost Aleppo, Syria’s second biggest city, and who the Islamist militants are who have taken control there

Gershon Baskin on his experience as a hostage negotiator in the Israel-Palestine conflict

Guardian US tech editor, Blake Montgomery, explains what the president-elect’s embrace of the cryptocurrency world might mean for his second term

Foreign correspondent William Christou travels to Damascus, hours after Syria’s decades-long dictator Bashar al-Assad is ousted from power, and asks whether the country’s thirteen-year civil war can finally come to an end

Guardian US business editor Dominic Rushe explains why the president-elect wants to impose tariffs on imports, and the risks it poses to the economy. Senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins talks through the potential of a wider retaliatory trade war with China.

Michael Safi examines how Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski’s manifesto has inspired copycat attacks and is claimed as an influence by others who have gone on to commit atrocities around the world

International security correspondent Jason Burke explores the life of Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, and asks whether he has genuinely reformed from his hardline al-Qaida past

Prince Andrew is in trouble again, this time for meeting a Chinese businessman accused of spying for China. Dan Sabbagh and David Pegg report