It has been a year of multiple major conflicts - and there are geopolitical implications of unparalleled importance
The BBC’s world affairs editor John Simpson explains why the BBC does not describe Hamas militants as "terrorists".
It's simply not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn, writes the BBC's World Affairs editor.
In 2001, the BBC's World Affairs editor was part of a team which entered the city when the Taliban fell.
