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Middle East & North Africa

  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel marks anniversary of Hamas attack as conflict escalates

    Palestinian militant group’s assault sparked war in Gaza that has spread across the Middle East

    1 hour ago
    A man embraces a woman as they attend a memorial gathering for victims of Hamas’s attack on the Nova music festival. Photos of the victims are displayed in the background
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    The year that changed Israel

    International criticism of the Gaza war has led many Israelis to retreat inwards. Feeling abandoned, they have backed the government’s military campaigns

    3 hours ago
    A memorial in Jerusalem for the victims of the October 7 attack and soldiers killed in subsequent fighting in Gaza
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Ireland slams Israel’s ‘outrageous’ demands to its peacekeepers

    Irish president rejects Israeli calls for UN battalion to withdraw from southern Lebanon

    A UN armoured personnel carrier
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel pounds Lebanon with heaviest night of bombing

    Beirut hit overnight with intense wave of air strikes against Hizbollah including targets near airport

    Smoke rising from a fire caused by an explosion after an Israeli air strike on the Choueifat district in Beirut, Lebanon on October 6 2024
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Simona Steinbrecher
    One year on, my daughter is still Hamas’s hostage

    We must unite as a global community with a singular objective — release the hostages and agree to a ceasefire deal

    Doron Steinbrecher (left) with her mother Simona (center) and her sister Yamit Ashkenazi (right)
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi tycoon plans comeback with world’s tallest tower

    Long-stalled project among a flurry of glitzy real estate deals designed to attract investors and tourists

    Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and others look at model of Jeddah Tower ahead of a press conference in 2017
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Lebanon says 50 medics killed in past three days as Israel extends its bombardment

    Hospital in southern Lebanon hit by a strike shortly after warning to evacuate

    A child shelters in a tent near a Beirut beach
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Profiteers take over Gaza food trade as UN aid falters

    War has led to private traders navigating black market and hiring armed guards to bring goods into strip

    A masked member of the Popular Committees of Protection controls traffic in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    US strikes Houthi targets in Yemen as fears grow of wider Mideast war

    Joe Biden defends Israel’s right to defend itself as it escalates offensive against Hizbollah in Lebanon

    Houthi supporters hold posters depicting Hizbollah’s late leader Hassan Nasrallah and wave the flags of the group during a protest in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people in Sana’a, Yemen on October 4, 2024
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Oil prices log biggest weekly rise in almost 2 years as Middle East tensions mount

    Brent crude up almost 10% amid speculation of Israeli or Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure

    An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboat sails along the Persian Gulf
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Netanyahu is ‘running rings’ around Biden

    The US president had hoped to disentangle from the Middle East. But the turbulence in the region could influence the election and define his legacy

    Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Washington and ruined buildings
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    The editorial board
    A year of war in the Middle East

    Hamas attack on Israel was horrific, but the response has inflamed the region

    A Palestinian woman reacts in front of a destroyed building in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza Strip
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Lawrence Freedman
    The retaliatory cycle has Iran and Israel firmly in its grip

    Speculation about targets is growing as the region grapples with what comes next

    Smoke rises as a result of an Israeli airstrike on the village of Khiam near the border with Israel in southern Lebanon
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Ehud Olmert and Nasser al-Kidwa: Israelis and Palestinians alike need hope — and a plan

    Our peace proposal may be outside of consensus thinking but it could help end this conflict for both our peoples

    A picture taken from a position in southern Israel showing an Israeli tank rolling along the fence as damaged buildings are see in the Gaza strip
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Is the Middle East on the brink of an ‘oil war’?

    Israel is considering attacks on Iranian energy sites, for which Iran might then retaliate, affecting global supplies

    Flames and thick black smoke rise from an oil refinery in Birjand, Iran
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Air strikes shake Beirut as Israel targets Hizbollah’s leadership

    Military aimed to kill heir apparent to Hassan Nasrallah in one of the heaviest bombardments of the Lebanese capital

    Smoke and flames rise over Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    War, peace and the American presidency Premium content

    The Middle East has claimed as many US presidential campaigns as it has given birth to

    Projectiles above the Israeli city of Ashdod on October 1, 2024
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Inside the Beirut suburb emptied by Israeli strikes

    Assault on Hizbollah targets devastates Lebanese capital’s densely populated Dahiyeh

    A man runs for cover
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Oil surges after Biden comments on Israeli retaliation

    US officials believe response to Iranian strike will be measured enough to avoid escalation

    US President Joe Biden departs the White House in Washington on October 3
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    ExplainerMiddle East war
    Can Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities by itself?

    Without US support, analysts believe the Israeli air force will struggle to mount a successful operation

    A montage showing the Natanz nuclear facility, Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb and B-2 bomber
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast16 min listen
    Markets and the Middle East

    Markets are shrugging off conflict in the Middle East. Will that last?

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Radar shows scale of damage from Israeli strikes on Lebanon

    Satellite data shows more than 3,100 buildings affected as intense wave of attacks kills over 1,300 people

    Image of a bombed-out building in Beirut paired with a map of Lebanon highlighting affected areas
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Nine dead as Israel launches multiple air strikes on Beirut

    Medical facility linked to Hizbollah hit as Israel steps up ground offensive

    Smoke billows from the rubble of a building in Dahiyeh, Beirut, following an Israeli air strike
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Libya
    Libya restarts oil production after political crisis

    Resumption following factional power struggle helps allay concerns over potential disruption from Middle East conflict

    Oil storage tanks in Zawiyah, Libya
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why the EU fears a major war in Lebanon Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Will tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles hurt the green transition?

    Smoke clouds erupt during an Israeli airstrike on Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel
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