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Middle East and north Africa

  • Smoke rises after an airstrike which appears to have hit an apartment block in a dense urban development along the coastal corniche.

    Israeli attack on Tyre in Lebanon kills eight as evacuation ordered for Christian quarter

  • Dr Hussam Abu Safiya

    Israel puts Palestinian doctor in solitary confinement after 17 months held without charge

  • People stand next to part of a missile protruding from the ground, following strikes from Iran, in the central West Bank, 8 June, 2026.

    Middle East crisis live
    Lebanon’s president refuses to meet Netanyahu until war ends – as it happened

  • A man poses for a photo next to a fallen rocket half-buried in the ground on the outskirts of Jericho

    Israel and Iran step back from renewed conflict after Trump calls for halt

  • a man standing in debris

    Trump claims he ‘didn’t guarantee’ no US wars. Here’s what he’s actually said

  • Composite image of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US president Donald Trump

    Complex relationship between Trump and Netanyahu continues to undermine Middle East ceasefire

  • Today in Focus: The Latest
    Israel and Iran trade strikes: what does this mean for peace deal? - The Latest

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  • Today in Focus
    Israel and Iran trade strikes: what does this mean for peace deal? – The Latest

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  • Iran war: who is fighting and why?

  • ‘You escape the slaughter. But there’s a long tail of sadness’: musician Bedouine on the strangeness of Arab life outside the Middle East

  • Will Iran give up on ceasefire talks as strait of Hormuz blockade continues?

  • Israel and Iran exchange strikes as Middle East crisis threatens to escalate

  • Rights and freedom
    double quotation markI was jailed for speaking out about the treatment of workers at the Qatar World Cup. I am still being punished

    Abdullah Ibhais

  • My Memory Is Full of Ghosts review – deeply moving visual hymn for the bombed-out Syrian city of Homs

  • Trump reportedly tells Netanyahu not to retaliate against Iran - as it happened

  • A missile streak crosses the night sky above Hebron as buildings glow below

    Iran launches missiles at Israel in response to strikes on Beirut

    Tehran official had promised ‘decisive and painful’ reply to Israeli bombing of apartment buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs
  • An Italian Coast Guard vessel marked CP 422 with crew members on deck and orange inflatable pontoons

    Italian rescuers recover 10 bodies after migrant boat capsizes off Malta

    About 48 people rescued alive after vessel reportedly left Libya carrying about 60 passengers

    • UK readies sanctions against Israel to deter proposed illegal West Bank settlement

    • double quotation markTrump’s failure to maintain ceasefires is part of the new world disorder – and ordinary people pay the price

      Simon Tisdall

    • The Sunday read
      Could this one man have been behind terrorist attacks on Jewish communities across Europe?

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