People in the Iraqi city of Al Kut are in mourning, after one of the worst fires in the country’s history.

The directly visible indicator of the devastation was the collapse of the local currency (from 47 Syrian pounds per US dollar in 2010 to 14,800 by the end of 2024), as growing budget deficits were ...

Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford is in southern Syria, where the government says escalating violence has been ...