Hugh Sykes

Attacks by a group of men, some of whom were asylum seekers, on women in Cologne, Germany, highlights concerns about how best to integrate predominantly-male refugees into Europe.

Over the weekend, another American—26-year-old U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig—died at the hands of the Islamic State. President Obama called it "an act of pure evil."

The BBC's Hugh Sykes has been on the ground reporting on the latest violence in Egypt. Sykes has reported many times since the revolution began and he often points out that we frequen...

How do you look forward when so much of your world is sliding backward? That's the question BBC war correspondent Hugh Sykes asked Iraqis as they watched their country crumble around them.

Ten years after the American invasion of Iraq began, the BBC's Hugh Sykes files a report about how American soldiers handle the responsibilities, contradictions, and challenges of occ...

BBC Correspondent Hugh Sykes recently completed another exhaustive trip across North Africa and the Middle East to try and assess, and better understand, what has changed in the regio...

In his first appearance since defecting from Syria last week, the former prime minister, Riad Hijab, has denounced the government he once served. Hijab spoke live on Jordanian Televis...

Egyptians go to the polls today to vote for a president, marking the first time the country's citizens will freely elect a president since coming under military dictatorship 60 years ...

Hugh Sykes reports on the Arab League summit in Baghdad, where only 10 out of 22 leaders of the Arab world have turned up. It's the first time the Arab League summit has been in Iraq ...

On Wednesday June 22^nd, President Barack Obama promised the nation that he was ready to bring home 10,000 US troops stationed in Afghanistan. In a year's time, the president hopes to extend that number to 33,000 troops. At home and abroad, not everybody believes that the mission has made enough progress to end its military engagements in the region. Veteran BBC reporter Hugh Sykes has been spending his time in Afghanistan, Pakistan investigating Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, providing safe havens to the Haqqani Taliban, a group most likely responsible for the Hotel siege in Kabul last Tuesday night.

About a thousand Syrians crossed the northern border of the country into Turkey overnight. They are fleeing a possible assault from the Syrian Army, which is believed to be led by Syrian President Bashar Assad's younger brother. The troops have surrounded the town of Jisr al-Shughour, close to the Turkish border, with heavy forces and tanks. The Turkish government has already built one camp to house the Syrian refugees, and is currently building another. 

What does Egypt look like post-revolution? Now that eveyone has the freedom to demonstrate, there's an array of special interest groups in Tahrir Square. A panel has only ten days to amend the constitution. And there is a determination for free and fair elections in six months. The BBC's Hugh Sykes is in Cairo, reporting on the day to day changes in a country free from dictatorship.

The BBC's Hugh Sykes reports from Cairo's Tahrir Square. He says that President Mubarak's comments to his people Thursday night were extremely insulting to Egyptians, who continue to call for his ouster. Sykes describes moving through the densely packed crowd and talking to people who have been protesting in the square for weeks.

In Pakistan thousands of pilgrims have taken part in the holy Shia festival of Arbaeen, many risking their own lives after two suicide bombers killed at least twelve people. In Lahore and Karachi most of the dead were policemen, challenging the bombers before they could reach the most crowded places.

Less than a week after Wikileaks revealed the level of nervousness amongst regional leaders about Iran's apparent aspirations for nuclear power, the country announced it had produced yellowcake uranium domestically. Just in the past hour, key talks between Iran and world powers on Teheran's disputed nuclear program ended in Geneva, where Iran's negotiator continued to tell world leaders that the country's nuclear ambitions were about power, not weapons. Hugh Sykes, reporter for our partner the BBC, joins us for reactions from the region to the recent news concerning Iran's nuclear developments. 

In Iraq, insurgents launched what seems to be a coordinated wave of attacks on police forces this morning as the American military prepares to switch from combat operations to a training and assistance role in the country. Almost all of the targets were police stations and police checkpoints.

The Green Zone was established in Baghdad when U.S. troops invaded in 2003, and since then it has come to symbolize much of the American presence, both in Iraq and abroad. It is a fortress, a city within a city, and the headquarters of both American power and the Iraqi government.

Today we take a look at the Green Zone’s future and legacy as American troops continue their withdrawal from Iraq, and whether the Green Zone needs to be dismantled in order for the country to have true sovereignty.

"The Hurt Locker” was undoubtedly the star of this year’s Oscars, winning six awards, including Best Picture. The New York Times declared it the best American feature film yet about the war in Iraq. Cinematic awards are well and good, but how true to life is the film?

We speak with Hugh Sykes, BBC correspondent in Baghdad, for a look at the current situation in Iraq. Sykes visited the largest American internment camp in Iraq, Camp Bucca, as it was ...

Muntazer al-Zaidi, the man jailed for throwing his shoes at former President George W. Bush, was released from prison yesterday. Hugh Sykes is a foreign correspondent for our partners...