News stories & Features: Middle East & North Africa

News stories & Features: Middle East & North Africa

 

2012

As the world dithers over Syria, shocking evidence of an entire family massacred by Assad thugs - 10 June 2025
Exclusive - Mail on Sunday

Islamists on course to win Egypt presidential election as first round polls close - 25 May 2025
Daily Mail

Egypt’s ex prime minister Ahmed Shafiq attacked by a mob at polls - 24 May 2025
London Evening Standard

‘A beautiful feeling’ as 50 million Egyptians vote in an era of democracy - 24 May 2025
London Evening Standard

Egypt Election 2012 - First free and fair vote in 5000 years pits Islamists against Mubarak men - 24 May 2025
Daily Mail

Al Megrahi is buried - Has any hope of finding out the truth about Lockerbie died with him? - 21 May 2025
Daily Mail

Lockerbie bomber is ‘unconscious and may never recover’ - 16 April 2025
Daily Mail

Al-Megrahi: Lockerbie bomber fights for life after blood transfusion - 14 April 2025
Daily Mail

Sarkozy’s spies helped Gaddafi kill dissidents - 10 April 2025
The Independent (see bottom of page)

Col Gaddafi ‘gave French president Sarkozy £42Million to fund his 2007 presidential campaign - 12 March 2025
Daily Mail

Syrian army accused of targeting journalists after veteran journalist is killed - 23 February 2025
Irish Independent

Syria: Assad troops pledged to kill ‘any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil’ - 23 February 2025
Daily Mail

Syria: war reporter Marie Colvin killed in ‘targeted attack’ on Homs - 22 February 2025
Daily Telegraph

‘I saw slaughter in Homs’ says Arab League observer in Syria - 17 January 2025
Sunday Telegraph

2011

Bruni jets out to multi-million £ Moroccan pad, angering pro-democracy campaigners - 23 December 2024
Daily Mail

Islamic party wins power for first time in Morocco - 28 November 2025
Daily Telegraph

Syria: Assad family ‘selling off overseas property empire’ - 06 October 2025
Daily Telegraph

Syrian rulers’ global property empire ’up for sale’ as they prepare for defeat - 06 October 2025
The Evening Standard

Dictator’s wife ‘ordered bomb attacks in Tunisia’ - 04 October 2025
The Evening Standard

Gaddafi evading capture in Mercedes 4X4 given to him by Nicolas Sarkozy - 19 September 2025
Daily Mail

Algeria at risk of al-Qaeda revenge attacks after accepting Gaddafi family - 31 August 2025
Daily Telegraph

Libya: Algeria braces itself for terrorist attacks following arrival of Gaddafi family - 30 August 2025
Daily Telegraph

2 years on, the Lockerbie bomber marks his freedom with his family thanks to drug manufactured in the UK - 20 August 2025
Daily Mail

UK cancer wonder-drug enables Lockerbie Bomber Al-Megrahi to reach 2nd anniversary of release - 19 August 2025
Daily Telegraph

First the dictators were toppled. Now Kings are looking over their shoulder - 30 July 2025
The Times - Nabila contributes to a report by James Hider

Is Asma Assad in London? - 10 May 2025
Daily Telegraph

British-born wife of Syrian dictator ‘hiding in the UK with their three children’ - 10 May 2025
Daily Mail

Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard: ‘I had orders to kill him if the Americans tried to take him alive’ - 04 May 2025
Daily Mirror

Libya: Gaddafi confident of ‘finishing the job’ in 48 hours - 17 March 2025
Daily Telegraph

‘East Libya will be liberated in two days’, warns Saif al-Islam Gaddafi - 16 March 2025
Daily Mail

A rifle-waving rant from Gaddafi’s ‘moderate’ son - 28 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard

Soldiers are told to shoot demonstrators on sight - 25 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard

Please help us, my good friend Tony Blair: Gaddafi’s son asks for former PM’s help to ‘crush ennemies’ - 25 Feb 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive

Gaddafi’s cousin defects to Egypt as Libyan forces attack ‘rat protesters’ - 24 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard

Gaddafi forces hit back at revolt - 24 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard

Gaddafi offers cash rewards to Libyans to betray pro-democracy protesters - 24 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph

‘I will die a martyr’: Gaddafi calls on supporters in furious speech on Libyan TV - 22 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard

Muammar Gaddafi: I am still in Libya - 22 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph

Libya facing civil war as Gaddafi flees bloodshed - 22 Feb 2025
The Express

Gaddafi clings to power: Gunships and fighter bombers ‘sent to murder protesters’ - 22 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard - Frontpage

Libya: Muammar Gaddafi’s regime on the brink of collapse - 21 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph

Libya: Protests gather pace as Gaddafi’s son vows to fight to the end - 21 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph

Gaddafi flees: State buildings ablaze, dictator to make last stand in desert - 21 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard - Frontpage

Fifty more Libya deaths take toll above 300 as mourners are massacred - 21 Feb 2025
Daily Mail (scroll down for Nabila’s piece) - Exclusive

Middle East crisis: Libyan protests move closer to Tripoli - 21 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph - Frontpage

Libya protests: ‘foreign mercenaries using heavy weapons against at demonstrators’ - 20 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph

Algeria shuts down internet and Facebook as protest mounts - 12 Feb 2025
Sunday Telegraph

Greed of the Tunisian president’s wife that drove a nation onto the streets to start a revolution - 16 Jan 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive

Despot’s daughters in VIP suites at Disneyland Paris (Riots in Tunisia) - 16 Jan 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive (scroll down below Nick Pisa’s piece)

2010

Tony Blair’s company ‘to make £27m advising Kuwait on how to govern itself’ - 14 Dec 2024
Daily Mail - Exclusive

Thousands flock to bomber’s deathbed - Libyans surround Megrahi’s house for his final days - 12 Dec 2024
Sunday Mail - Exclusive

Lockerbie bomber is ‘preparing to die’ - Megrahi’s health deteriorating fast, says relative - 10 Dec 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive

Al-Megrahi was ‘well catered for’ - 03 Dec 2025
BBC News Scotland - Radio 5 Live

Lockerbie bomber’s family to sue for false imprisonment and neglect, says Gaddafi - 03 Dec 2025
Daily Mail

Doctors of Lockerbie bomber claim they are trying to cure his cancer - 26 Sept 2025
Sunday Mail - Exclusive

Lockerbie bomber blast at Britain: Jail killed me a million times - 23 Aug 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive

Bomber marks big day watching TV and asking about Rangers - 22 Aug 2025
Sunday Express

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi ‘speaks in Scots accent’ - 22 Aug 2025
Sunday Express

Lockerbie bomber Al-Megrahi marks 1st anniversary of freedom by watching BBC and talking Rangers with pals - 22 Aug 2025
Sunday Mail

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi’s celebration - 22 Aug 2025
Sunday Mirror

Lockerbie bomber could live until 2017, say doctors - 20 Aug 2025
Daily Mail - byline in the newspaper edition

Gaddafis to help Megrahi celebrate a year of freedom - 15 Aug 2025
The Sunday Times - additional reporting

‘Thank God for Gordon’: Gaddafi orders Libyans to pray for Brown - 14 Aug 2025
Mail on Sunday - Exclusive

Lockerbie bomber freed to die is now being given ‘miracle cure’ drug - 13 Aug 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive

Blair in secret talks with Gaddafi - 16 July 2025
Daily Mail - Front page lead story

Tony Blair our very special adviser by dictator Gaddafi’s son - 05 June 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive interview

Lockerbie bomber is better than ever, brags Gaddafi’s son - 16 Mar 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive

2009

Prince Andrew ‘had Lockerbie talks with Gaddafi son’ - 06 Sept 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive

Scottish Parliament rejects ‘catastrophic’ decision to release Megrahi - 02 Sept 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive

Gaddafi honours Scotland with pipers at 40th anniversary party to thank them for Lockerbie bomber’s release - 02 Sept 2025
Daily Mail

Kilted pipers at Gaddafi’s pageant to honour Scotland for freeing Megrahi - 02 Sept 2025
The London Evening Standard

Revealed: How Jack Straw backed Gaddafi talks - 01 Sept 2025
The London Evening Standard

Megrahi ‘at work’ mocks justice, say Lockerbie families - 22 Aug 2025
The London Evening Standard

The birth pangs of freedom - 09 Mar 2025
The Daily News Egypt