This week, Qatar's foreign ministry spokeswoman tells Middle East Matters: "the pattern of reckless behaviour in the region needs to stop." Sanam Shantyaei went to the Qatari embassy in Paris to speak to Lulwa Rashid Al-Khater about a host of regional issues.
Meanwhile, in Syria, Abdel Basset al-Sarout, a football star-turned-rebel, has died fighting the forces of Bashar al-Assad. Syrians are divided over his legacy.
And we bring you another episode of animation series "Flavours of Iraq". This time, our protagonist takes us back to 2011, when the last convoy of US soldiers pulled out of Iraq.
