Alicia Kearns: Ten actions we can and should take to help the Kurds

The UK’s role is limited, as we will not and cannot put our own people into this theatre – but we must do what we can.

Garvan Walshe: Netanyahu, the great survivor, clings to power – as police investigators wait for him in the wings

The opposition are allowing him first dibs at forming a government. This is a major risk for them, because he is a famed dealmaker.

A big question about Hong Kong – and even bigger ones about migration and China

Even though public concern about immigration seems to have eased off recently, there is reason for caution.

The Ayatollahs of August

Johnson will want no distractions from Brexit this summer, but history suggests that he may get one – in the Straits of Hormuz.

John Jenkins: Too many excuses are made for Iran – especially by the EU. We must get real, stand with America, and take decisive action.

I’m glad to see we’ve now had the guts to stop a tanker we believe is smuggling Iranian oil in defiance of sanctions on Syria.

Adam Holloway: Huawei exercises state influence through private means. It is the East India Company of the modern age.

“If a 16 year old with Aspergers can break into US defence computers, what is to stop a Chinese company putting in trap doors that it can activate whenever it wants?

Garvan Walshe: How Netanyahu, the great survivor, can scrape four more years in power

It would be a hazardous balancing act, but he has a slight edge over his opponents.

What do and don’t we know about Mueller’s investigation, the Trump campaign, and Russian interference?

Cutting through the fog of war and spin can be tricky, but here are the fundamental facts so far.

Iain Dale: Corbyn’s party sinks deeper into anti-semitism

Plus: No, the Trump-Kim Jong Un summit wasn’t altogether a failure. And: Costa should get his old job back.

Nuclear powers, spiralling tension – and Kashmir’s fallout in urban Britain

Brokenshire must keep an eye on the potential knock-on from the latest flare-up over terror, reprisals, a captured pilot and the disputed territory.

Garvan Walshe: Assailed by police, polls and a triumvirate of ex-generals, can Netanyahu hold on to power?

The odds are stacking ever higher against the man who has dominated his country’s politics for years.

Natasha Hausdorff: The proscription of Hezbollah is welcome – though overdue

It will be a significant step forward in keeping this heinous organisation from inciting hatred on our streets.

Chloe Westley: The twisted ideology that upends reason – and presents terror backers as innocent victims

Postmodernism strips the likes of Shamima Begum of personal responsibility and judges her solely by ethnicity, religion and class.

Bob Seely: The rule of law is an absolute. It cannot be dispensed with when we deal with ISIS terrorists.

A key moral from the case of Shamima Begum is that we need better information both to protect and prosecute.

The most pro-intervention speech by a Defence Secretary since the Iraq War

Is the Treasury up for funding and voters up for supporting the ideas he sketched out ealier this week?