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Your #3000chairs for child refugees – in picturesNicola Davis’s poem The Day The War Came and subsequent Twitter campaign resonated with readers concerned about the UK government’s attitude to taking in 3,000 unaccompanied Syrian children. Here is a selection of the empty chairs you’ve made to symbolise the plight of those children
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Egyptian satirists arrested for mocking presidentFive members of Awlad el-Shawarea group are likely to face charges of inciting protests and insulting state institutions
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Briton pleads with Iran to release arrested wife and daughterNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is in solitary confinement away from two-year-old daughter after arrest in Tehran during family visit
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France to set up a dozen deradicalisation centresPlan to combat home-grown terrorism aims to establish early warning system to pick up would-be extremists
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A grand but faulty vision for Iran's water problemsMassive water transfer schemes are no solution to Iran’s growing problems with drought
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Israel brings fresh charges against nuclear whistleblower Mordechai VanunuFormer nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel’s nuclear programme is accused of breaching restraining orders
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Gaziantep: home to Isis killers, sex traders… and a quest to rebuild SyriaThe Turkish city hosts the HQ of Tamkeen, a UK-backed aid agency reintroducing democracy to a country ravaged by civil war
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Egypt: eight police killed in attack on outskirts of CairoEgypt is in the midst of an insurgency that has killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since mid-2013
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Sister of Parramatta shooter was ‘top Isis recruiter’, says PentagonShadi Jabar, who fled Sydney a day before her brother shot Curtis Cheng, helped plan attacks on west and urged women to go to Syria
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The UN thinks the media doesn’t offer a rounded picture, and need to be in the business of ‘constructive’ newsAlways look on the bright side? Surely a route to disaster
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Should David Cameron’s U-turn on unaccompanied child refugees be celebrated?Councils are willing to help but will be reluctant until it is clear who will pay for the extra school places and private foster care required
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Last night's TV Children of the Frontline: the Escape review – a cruel tale of a family shattered by war