It's been seven months since the ceasefire in Gaza, but reconstruction has barely begun, water remains contaminated and ...

First comprehensive report since ceasefire, compiled by World Bank, UN and EU, finds war caused over $35 billion of direct damage and over $22 billion more of economic losses ...

The contractors were threatened at gunpoint by Hamas militants, who refused to permit them passage to the site. The ...

The American writer Kurt Vonnegut was a prisoner in Dresden during the Second World War, and after the devastating Allied bombing of that city, was forced to go “mining” for corpses. In his novel ...

Gaza has been a place of terror, war and struggle, but also a place with a rich cultural and artistic history. Much of that has been damaged or destroyed the last two years. Senior arts correspondent ...