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Middle Eastern politics & society

  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel widens assault on Iran-backed militants with strikes against Houthis

    Targeting of Yemeni rebels accompanies fresh attacks on Hizbollah militia in Lebanon

    People in Beirut check the rubble of buildings that were levelled by Israeli strikes
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Israel
    Netanyahu critic joins his coalition in boost for Israeli premier

    Gideon Sa’ar brings four MPs to government, fortifying its position in parliament

    New Hope party leader Gideon Sa’ar
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Nasrallah and Assad: the Syrian war that changed Hizbollah

    Lebanese militant leader’s decision to fight for dictator stoked sectarian divisions and damaged group

    Syrians celebrate in rebel-held Idlib on Saturday after the death of Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    Israel dreams of a new order in the Middle East

    But escalating the conflict further is more likely to lead to regional chaos

    Illustration of two rockets, one with the Israeli flag and the other with the Iranian flag, on a chess board
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel kills Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in massive strike on Beirut

    Militant leader targeted after a year of intensifying conflict

  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israelis cheer death of arch-enemy Hassan Nasrallah

    Assassination comes as Israel prepares to mark anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack which killed 1,200 people

  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Tom Fletcher
    After Nasrallah’s death, the Middle East braces itself

    The killing of Hizbollah’s leader brings mixed emotions for the Lebanese but ups the danger

  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Nasrallah attack is culmination of two-week Israel campaign against Hizbollah

    Assassination of long-standing leader is latest step in plan that has sparked panic and mayhem

    Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in New York
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    ObituaryHassan Nasrallah
    Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hizbollah, 1960-2024

    Charismatic Lebanese cleric and founding figure of guerrilla group that became the Middle East’s most powerful paramilitary force

  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel says it hit Hizbollah headquarters with Beirut air strike

    Biggest attack on Lebanese capital in offensive said to have targeted group’s commander, Hassan Nasrallah

    A building destroyed in an Israeli air strike in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Emile Hokayem
    With Lebanon on the brink, the Arab world waits for Washington

    Countries across the Middle East regard containing the war between Israel and Hizbollah as a western responsibility

    People clean debris from a damaged house amid ongoing search for survivors, a day after an Israeli strike on residential buildings in Maaysrah, north of Beirut, Lebanon.
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Middle East war
    Netanyahu says Israel ‘shares the aims’ of US ceasefire proposal

    Washington reacted with frustration to Israeli prime minister’s insistence on continuing to strike Hizbollah with ‘full force’

    Smoke rises above a cityscape as seen from Haifa, northern Israel.
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
    The Israel-Hamas war — in maps and charts

    A visual guide to the conflict and its regional impact

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Middle East war
    Netanyahu insists Israel will continue to hit Hizbollah targets

    Prime minister casts doubt on US-led efforts to bring about a ceasefire and prevent war spreading across the region

    Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted Lebanon’s eastern city of Baalbek in the Bekaa valley
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Iran races to allay Hizbollah fears

    Tehran’s restraint in the face of increasingly aggressive Israeli operations has unsettled Lebanese militant group

    Axis of resistance map and Masoud Pezeshkian
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Kim Ghattas
    Its strategy may lie in ruins, but Hizbollah will not admit defeat

    There is a short window for international diplomacy to find a face-saving formula for the Iran-backed militant group

    Hizbollah members attend the funeral procession of their comrades who were killed in Israeli strikes
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    News in-depthBenjamin Netanyahu
    Netanyahu’s polls rebound after aggressive Israeli operations

    Since approving assassinations in Beirut and Tehran, the premier’s Likud party has taken the lead in national surveys

    Benjamin Netanyahu with Israeli soldiers soon after the October 7 attack
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israeli strikes kill almost 500 in Lebanon, says health ministry

    Deadliest single day in country for decades followed US warnings against escalating attacks on Hizbollah

    Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Marjayoun, near the Lebanon-Israel border
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    ‘Leave your homes now’: Lebanon endures bloodiest day in decades

    Nearly 500 people killed after hundreds of Israeli strikes targeting Hizbollah

  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    News in-depthUnited Arab Emirates
    The UAE’s growth plan to boost ranks of Emiratis

    Trend for smaller families prompts concern among locals who are outnumbered 9 to 1 by migrant population

    Arab family playing ball
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    ‘Battered and weakened’: Israel deals Hizbollah its worst ever week

    Iranian-backed militant group is under pressure to change tactics after series of attacks

  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel kills elite Hizbollah commanders in Beirut strike

    Air strike on Ibrahim Aqil and Radwan Force follows a wave of deadly blasts in Lebanon

    People check the damage at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    ‘A nightmare on repeat’: Lebanese process sabotaged device attacks

    Shocked citizens, extreme injuries and a powerful militant group in disarray: the impact of thousands of pager and walkie-talkie blasts

    Men carry the coffin at the funeral of Mohammad Mahdi Ammar, son of Hizbollah member of the Lebanese parliament Ali Ammar
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Tom Fletcher
    Israel’s pager attack has raised the stakes in the Middle East

    For Hizbollah the strike is a humiliation, while some Israelis see it as a prelude to a wider offensive in Lebanon

    Hezbollah members carry the coffin of their comrade who was killed on Wednesday when a handheld device exploded, during a funeral procession in the southern suburbs of Beirut
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Israel’s northern gambit: Netanyahu shifts war focus to Hizbollah

    Exploding devices and air strikes suggest strategy is to force Lebanese militants to rethink military support for Gaza

    An Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese border village of Adshit on Thursday
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