Orlando. A British-born preacher says “death is the sentence” for gay people. Only a few months later, scores are murdered.

The contention that foreign policy is the driver of Islamist terror has been comprehensively demolished.

Mark Field: It has war on its doorstep, economic woes, and no President to represent it. But here’s why I’m hopeful about Lebanon.

Here is a people who maintain a firm desire to persist with their finely-balanced political system and build their government’s capability.

Daniel Kawczynski: We need a new and more realistic attitude to Russia

Disruptive as it may be, Putin’s Russia is not our ideological nemesis, to be defeated like the Soviet Union.

Chris Grayling: Why Obama was wrong. Speech on the EU referendum in Washington. Full Text.

The view from Washington isn’t really the best way of judging what is right and wrong for the United Kingdom.

Khan – not an extremist, but an opportunist. Which is almost as problematic.

What emerges through the mists is a more-or-less standard left-wing politician, but with a sensitive nose for where the political wind will blow next.

Hammond, the referendum – and how Downing Street now runs EU policy

The foreign policy aspect of the choice has so far been a poor relation in the debate.

David Davis: What I saw in Syria. And what Britain should do to help end its barbarous civil war – in its own interest, ours, and the world’s

This is better way of dealing with both migration and the terror threat than the patchwork measures taken so far by the EU.

Gary Kent: How we can help our allies, the Kurds

Another major issue raised by the hostile approach of Baghdad and the virtual collapse of Iraq is whether they can, during the coming years, move towards independence.

WATCH: Blunt on Libya – “The Government needs to take Parliament with it”

“If we’re given a concept of operations that looks dangerous, particularly around the ground element, than the Government could find itself in unnecessary trouble.”

Garvan Walshe: Can Mosul be liberated from ISIS?

And, just as importantly, can it be held against ISIS and whoever might come after them?

The Government, ground troops, the Commons – and war in Libya

The Government should order group troops to fight if it so decides. The Commons should then question its actions, debate them and vote on them. That is the right way round.

Sir Edward Leigh: Self-determination for Syria or Sykes-Picot revisited?

Foreign Office ministers are stuck in the mentality of prioritising geopolitical ploys over a grave humanitarian crisis: this has to change.

Luke de Pulford: As genocide is wreaked on the Yazadis, the Foreign Office averts its eyes

Why is the Government allowing itself to be bullied into accepting this baseless policy by civil servants?

Flick Drummond: These Saudi-led attacks on civilians in Yemen must be stopped

A recent UN report documented 119 incidents by the coalition forces, including attacks on weddings, mosques, ports and markets.

Garvan Walshe: The Syria peace deal is this generation’s Yalta

Syrians will remember the promises we made and failed to keep for generations.