Tim Loughton: Brexit can make it safer and easier for refugee children to rejoin their families

I voted Leave because I felt it would present chances to do things better. This is just such a chance.

Martin Parsons: Why the Conservative manifesto commitment to overseas aid is so radical

The way in which the 0.7 per cent target is defined is out of date. Lack of money is not necessarily the primary cause of underdevelopment.

Douglas Hansen-Luke: Here’s how we can help Syria – by feeding, educating and treating its refugees.

To advocate regime change without a plan for the future would be criminally negligent. What we can do is to influence, support and invest in the people of Syria.

Graeme Archer: Murdered gays. Banned Jews. But stick to those anti-Trump protests, comrade – and avert your eyes.

Thank God for great European leaders, like Merkel, whose idiosyncratic approach to border control played such an understated role in last year’s Brexit vote.

Mike Freer: Our Government is shamed by others brave enough to stand up to Iran

The US rightly considers it to be the world’s biggest state sponsor of terror – and it has too often played a malicious role in the geopolitical morass of the Arab world.

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.

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.

Lord Risby: Syria has suffered for our slowness to strike

So much of the present crisis – and of the intervening suffering – can be traced to our failure to move decisively against Assad two years ago.

Sir Eric Pickles MP: Business innovation. Humanitarian effort. And ceaseless security threats. What I found during a visit to Israel.

There is much more to the country than the political controversies which are the focus of most reports.

Hicham Felter: Iran is a menace to our interests, and this nuclear deal with it shows weakness

Tehran’s approach of destabilisation and domination threatens a nuclear arms race and the destruction of Israel.

Iraq. We’ve been in the frying pan once. We mustn’t get back into the fire.

There are means of intervening there, but they are very limited indeed.

Is Conservative backbench opinion shifting against Israel over Gaza?

TV coverage, Muslim demographics and electoral pressure are helping to move the balance of opinion.

Rehman Chishti MP: We shouldn’t work with Iran in Iraq until or unless it gives up terror

How can we work with a country that for far too long has provided funding, training and weapons and a safe haven for militant groups in the region?

Daniel Kawczynski MP: We shouldn’t shut out the Saudis from our Iran negotiations

The Gulf Co-operation Council could play a useful role.