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  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
    The Israel-Hamas war in maps: latest updates

    A visual guide to the war

    Montage of Gaza map and photograph of Israeli tanks on the border
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    US hopeful of Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal in ‘coming days’

    National security adviser Jake Sullivan says negotiators in Paris reached ‘understanding’ on basics of agreement

    Smoke from an Israeli bombardment of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Qatar to increase LNG export capacity in bet on Asian demand

    Gulf state’s liquefied natural gas production capacity to rise nearly 85% before end of decade

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel unveils plan for complete postwar control of Gaza

    Netanyahu document on future of besieged Palestinian enclave at odds with US aims

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Money laundering
    UAE removed from money laundering ‘grey list’

    Gulf state no longer subject to additional scrutiny by Paris-based Financial Action Task Force

    Dubai skyline
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    News in-depthIran
    Thousands of Iranians fall victim to cut-price Apple iPhone scam

    Angry customers picket Tehran police station over multi-million-dollar fraud endorsed by high-profile figures

    A woman looks at an iPhone in a store in Tehran
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Global InsightAndrew England
    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
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Looting all but halts Gaza aid deliveries as law and order nears collapse

    Egypt seeks to broker deal with Israeli military to allow Palestinian police to guard convoys

    A man walks past a truck carrying humanitarian aid from the UK that entered Gaza by truck
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel’s top military lawyer warns troops in Gaza about ‘improper conduct’

    Some behaviour including unjustified force and looting has crossed over into ‘criminal’ acts, says military advocate general

    An Israeli soldier walks among destroyed buildings in Gaza
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel grapples with ‘Eichmann’ dilemma over Hamas attack trials

    Proposal for dealing with October 7 suspects prompts comparisons with proceedings against Nazi war criminal

    Armed men cross the Beit Hanoun Crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip on October 7
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    US warns Israel against offensive into Rafah in draft UN resolution

    Text seen by Financial Times also calls for ‘temporary ceasefire’ in Gaza

    Palestinian children gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Kim Ghattas
    Israel’s ‘don’t reward them’ argument misses a moment of opportunity

    It is time for Biden to deploy his political capital with Israelis to give Arab diplomacy a chance

    Joe Biden with Benjamin Netanyahu during the US president’s visit to Tel Aviv in October
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Houthi movement
    Crew abandons ship in most damaging strike yet by Yemen’s Houthis

    Attack on bulk carrier follows US report that rebel movement now has submarine drone in its arsenal

    The cargo ship Rubymar
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    UN court begins hearings on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories

    ICJ case adds to legal scrutiny of country’s conduct after South Africa’s claim of genocide

  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israeli cabinet debates al-Aqsa mosque restrictions during Ramadan

    Discussion to limit Muslim access to the site inflames tensions already heightened by the war in Gaza

    Israeli security forces stand guard as Muslim worshippers wait at a checkpoint to enter the al Aqsa mosque compound
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    The extremists driving Netanyahu’s approach to war with Hamas

    Once seen as fringe figures, ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir oppose a ‘reckless’ ceasefire deal in Gaza

    Montage of Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich and Benjamin Netanyahu
  • 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
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Battleground by Christopher Phillips — conflicts that explain the Middle East

    A crisp study of key wars in the region offers sobering geopolitical lessons

    Men with guns
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Iran
    ‘Tsunami of cosmetic surgery’ changes face of Iran

    Senior doctors fear the impact on identity as well as health as an increasing number go under the knife

    Staff operating on a patient at a plastic surgery clinic in Tehran, Iran
  • 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
    Lebanese and Israelis killed in cross-border fire

    Suspected Hizbollah rocket barrage leads to retaliatory air strikes by Israel

  • 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
    Palestinian Authority runs low on funds as Israel withholds cash

    Finance minister Shoukry Bishara warns stability of West Bank is being undermined

    Shoukry Bishara, finance minister of the Palestinian Authority
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Michael Wahid Hanna
    Only the US can stop an Israeli move into Rafah

    Joe Biden’s pressure on Israel must go beyond stern words and leaked angry conversations

    Palestinians in the remains of a destroyed mosque in Rafah
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