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Andrew England

Middle East Editor

Andrew England is the Middle East editor. He was previously MIddle East and Africa news editor. Prior to that, he spent 17 years based in the Middle East and Africa as a foreign correspondent. His posts included Southern Africa bureau chief, Abu Dhabi bureau chief and Middle East and North Africa correspondent.

He joined the Financial Times in 2004 as East Africa correspondent. Before joining the FT, he was East Africa correspondent for the Associated Press.

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  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel plans $60bn debt raising and tax rises to fuel defence spending

    Finance ministry accountant general says demobilisation of reservists will boost economy

    new
    Reservists prepare to enter Gaza
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Global InsightIsrael-Hamas war
    Israel-Hamas hostage talks test US diplomatic heft

    Washington is caught between support for Israel and desire to halt Gaza war

    FILED - 15 November 2023, Israel, Tel Aviv: Israeli’s Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant (L) meets with the US Special Coordinator for the Middle East Brett McGurk (R) at the Ministry of Defence. Photo: Ariel Hermoni/GPO/dpa - ATTENTION: editorial use only and only if the credit mentioned above is referenced in full
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israeli cabinet rejects international calls for Palestinian state

    Unanimous vote highlights barrier towards peace deal as Netanyahu vows ‘total victory’ over Hamas

    Israeli protesters at a border crossing with Egypt
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israeli forces raid Gaza’s Nasser hospital

    IDF says it has ‘credible intelligence’ Hamas was holding hostages in the compound

    Palestinian patients arriving in Rafah after they were evacuated from Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on February 15 2024
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    News in-depthHouthi movement
    Houthi militancy drags troubled Yemen back into conflict

    Intervention in Israel-Hamas war risks further hardship for long-suffering population

    Tribesmen loyal to the Houthis brandish weapons
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel warns that hostage deal impossible unless Hamas changes stance

    Benjamin Netanyahu rejects militant group’s ‘delusional demands’ in talks brokered by the US, Qatar and Egypt

    Family members and supporters of Israeli hostages protest
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Why desperately needed aid is failing to reach the people of Gaza

    Famine looms for besieged enclave as inspections and security problems impede food deliveries

    Israeli security forces stand guard by Egyptian trucks bringing in humanitarian aid supplies to the Gaza Strip
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Gazans flee Rafah ahead of expected Israeli ground invasion

    Israel insists a military operation in the city that is home to 1.5mn displaced people is essential

    A woman reacts as she stands before a vehicle loaded with items secured by rope as people flee from Rafah
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    Iran recalled senior commanders from Syria days before US strikes

    Revolutionary Guard officers withdrawn to avoid further casualties and avert direct conflict with Washington

    Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi inspects military equipment at a Revolutionary Guards naval site in Bandar Abbas, Iran
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    CIA and Mossad chiefs to hold talks on Hamas hostage deal

    Biden presses for ceasefire and warns Israel not to attack Rafah without protecting civilians

    Children inspect the damage in the rubble of a mosque in the southern Gaza Strip
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Blinken’s Israel visit exposes limits of US diplomacy

    Divisions with Netanyahu come as US election looms over attempts to broker peace deal

    Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Saudi Arabia stresses link between Israel deal and Palestinian statehood

    Kingdom reiterates its position after the US talked up the prospect of a ‘normalisation arrangement’

    US secretary of state Antony Blinken held talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Hamas proposes lengthy ceasefire as part of Israel hostage deal

    Militant group’s demands are likely to face strong resistance inside Israel

    Families and supporters of hostages call for their release in Tel Aviv on Tuesday
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Israel’s business ties to UAE tested by Gaza war fury

    Entrepreneurs operating in Gulf state hope their delicate commercial links can withstand the conflict

    Dubai city from the top of Burj Khalifa
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Qatar says Hamas ‘positive’ on proposed deal to release Gaza hostages

    Agreement would include lengthy pause in war and release of Palestinian prisoners in Israel

    US secretary of state Antony Blinken hugs Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani in Doha
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    US foreign policy
    Blinken pushes for ‘enduring’ Gaza peace deal on regional tour

    US secretary of state will also travel to Qatar to reassure allies and pursue hostage release

    Antony Blinken with Saudi Arabia’s minister of state and national security Musaed Al Aiban
  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    US says strikes against Iran-backed militias are ‘beginning, not the end’

    Jake Sullivan vows further action after Washington’s back-to-back waves of assaults on groups in Yemen, Iraq and Syria

  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    Iran and Iraq warn US air strikes risk stoking instability

    American bombers hit 85 targets in retaliation for an attack that killed three soldiers

  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    InterviewUNRWA
    Head of UN agency for Palestinians defies Israeli calls to quit

    UNRWA chief seeks emergency funding from Gulf after crisis sparked by claims staff took part in Hamas attack

    Philippe Lazzarini
  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    US launches air strikes against Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria

    Tehran warns that Washington is engaging in ‘another adventurous and strategic error’

    Joe Biden
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Hamas ‘studying’ proposal for six-week pause in hostilities with Israel

    Initiative from Qatar, Egypt and US and agreed with Israeli intelligence chiefs was put to heads of militant group

    Billboards in Jerusalem show some of the hostages abducted from Israel during the Hamas attacks on October 7
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Cameron pushes for ‘irreversible progress’ towards two-state solution

    UK foreign secretary says diplomatic moves could include UK and allies considering recognising Palestinian state

    British foreign secretary Lord David Cameron
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
    The ‘Axis of Resistance’ pushing US to ramp up Middle East defences

    Iran-backed network triggers fears that Israel-Hamas war could spread within region

    Montage of an armed man loyal to Yemen’s Houthi rebels against a background showing a map of countries involved in the ‘Axis of Resistance’
  • Saturday, 27 January, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    UK proposes plan to end Israel-Hamas war

    Foreign secretary calls for the release of hostages and the establishment of a Palestinian state

    Israeli soldiers on patrol in Gaza, where 136 hostages are being held by Hamas
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    Telecoms
    UK says UAE group’s stake in Vodafone is national security risk

    Government expresses concerns over an Emirati deal for second time in a day

    A pedestrian using a phone walks past a Vodafone store in London, England
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