Smiling again: Hassan Rouhani.
Reuters/Adrees Latif
After years out in the cold, the Iranians have a chance to be heard in the West – and they’ve got Saudi Arabia on their minds.
Very few of the millions of refugees from Syria and Iraq have made it to European countries in the hope of resettlement.
Reuters
Solving the refugee crisis depends on the extent to which the people of the world – in the Gulf, Europe, Australia or anywhere else – are willing to live up to their moral responsibilities.
“It’s not that simple, Barack.”
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
Russia’s Syria play may have hit some snags already, but the US is hardly placed to kick up a fuss.
East meets West: refugees cross from Turkey into Greece.
Reuters
The refugee crisis that just arrived in Europe has been affecting Turkey for more than four years.
A Russian ship passes through the Bosphorus.
Reuters/Murad Sezer
Airspace incursions are spilling over into wider tensions.
The face-off between Russia and the West in Syria is giving both sides a chance to try out their new high-tech weaponry.
EPA/Rolex Dela Pena
Bombing Syria seems to have become obligatory for any aspiring great power. After all, what’s the point in spending all that money on sophisticated warplanes if you can’t actually use them on someone…
EPA/Russian Defence Ministry
Relations between the two countries, once cordial, have been strained by Russia’s intervention in Syria.
Australia’s policy on Syria should assess the threat and engage with the least worst enemy to pursue an achievable outcome.
AAP
Rather than being a proactive realignment, Australia’s shift in policy on Syria was a reactive realisation that it was being left behind.
Saving Syria’s future: plans and funding are being drawn up to educate Syrian refugees.
Reuters/Muhammad Hamed
Syria needs its children to build a better future, but hundreds of thousands are being deprived of an education.
Putin talks, Russia listens.
EPA/Yuri Kochetov
To his home audience, Vladimir Putin’s strategy in Syria appears to be sound.
One of many: a Free Syrian Army fighter.
Reuters
Russia has started bombing some of the groups machinating against Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Who are they, and what do they want?
EAP/Russian Defence Ministry
Despite a fierce exchange of rhetoric over Russia’s airstrikes in Syria, it makes sense for Moscow and Washington to coordinate their military intervention.
Mikhail Klimentiev/Ria Novosti
Why has Vladimir Putin stepped up his Syrian game so radically – and is it really all as sudden as it seems?
Julie Bishop says all options should be considered when it comes to Australia’s position on a post-civil war Syria.
AAP/Amanda Voisard
The real winners this week in international diplomacy have been Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
A damaged church in Maaloula, a Christian town in Syria.
Reuters/Omar Sanadiki
There’s an understandable impulse to treat all refugees the same regardless of religious identity. But is that actually helpful?
Don’t believe the hype.
Reuters
Life in the caliphate wasn’t exactly as advertised for one group of former fighters.
Pristine Dubai is apparently no place for displaced Syrians.
Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah
By refusing to take in Syrian refugees, the Gulf States’ governments prove they don’t care much about the humanitarian crisis on their doorstep.
New horizons. The immense refugee camp at Zaatari in Jordan.
REUTERS/Pool
Away from the chaos of Europe’s borders, refugees are camped out in vast settlements close to their home countries and where restrictions on entrepreneurship are wasting talent and energy.
Dover is taking more than its fair share.
from www.shutterstock.com
How FOI requests revealed the massive burden on two local authorities, and how to end the damaging effects on children.