Ghias Aljundi fled Syria after four years of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Assad regime. In 2015, he returned to the Mediterranean to help the thousands of refugees from his homeland arriving on the beaches of Lesbos. In October, photographer Lefteris Partsalis captured the moment when Ghias called for help for a Syrian boy he feared dead, in an image that sums up the horror and compassion that have defined 2015

Hacking, viruses, denial-of-service...all seem fair game in the modern world of conflict. It's time we drew up some rules of engagement

Mike Freer is Conservative MP for Golders Green, the heart of Britain's Jewish community. So on Sunday, naturally, he sent a tweet out to mark the start of Channukah.

We can't defend liberalism by locking people up for hate speech

A new wave of international volunteers is flocking to Kurdish territory in Rojava, Syria to play their part in building a new society. Here, one young British activist tells of his reasons for travelling to join the revolution, and what he saw when he got there

The legacies of czarism and Stalin have led to a culture of dishonesty and zero accountability in Russian politics