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Middle East and north Africa

9 October 2024

  • An airstrike hit a residential building in Damascus, killing at least seven people and wounding others, according to Syrian state media

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    Casualties, debris after airstrike hits residential building in Damascus – video

  • Smoke billows over Beirut southern suburbs.

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: Lammy to visit Bahrain and Jordan – as it happened

  • Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq

    Israel-Gaza: one year on
    ‘Survivor’s guilt is overwhelming’: the grief of losing 21 relatives in one airstrike in Gaza

  • Blue sky can be seen through a hole in a ruined building

    Israeli military deploys fourth division in Lebanon ground offensive

8 October 2024

  • Oil supertankers anchored at the Bandar Abbas Anchorage, in the Straits of Hormuz, bridging the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman - one of the most important waterways for the export of petroleum, from which 20% of the world's petroleum production passes through the narrow straits.<br>MN29Y4 Oil supertankers anchored at the Bandar Abbas Anchorage, in the Straits of Hormuz, bridging the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman - one of the most important waterways for the export of petroleum, from which 20% of the world's petroleum production passes through the narrow straits.

    The Guardian view on Israel and Iran: there will be no winners from an all-out war

  • Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian shaking the hand of Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud

    Could Saudi-Iran talks prevent Lebanon from turning into a second Gaza?

  • Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton in Parliament

    Full Story
    Could the crisis in the Middle East reshape Australian politics? – Full Story podcast

  • A man and woman carry belongings amid the rubble of damaged buildings

    How does Israel’s Lebanon invasion compare with its previous operations?

  • Israel-Gaza: one year on
    Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’

  • As the world falls apart, a few things are still worth celebrating – like Moo Deng the pygmy hippo

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • Saudi wealth fund buys 40% stake in Selfridges department store

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘A slap in the face to victims of abuse’: UN urged to reject Saudi Arabia’s bid to join Human Rights Council

  • Today, our hearts are breaking for the children of Gaza. Tomorrow, we must give them peace

    Gordon Brown

  • Dutch prosecutors mull criminal case over alleged Israel interference into ICC

  • Israel-Gaza: one year on
    One had lived 101 years, the other, just two hours: the stories of Gaza’s oldest victim and its youngest

7 October 2024

  • a woman speaks at a podium as a man looks on

    Kamala Harris pays tribute to victims of 7 October attacks on first anniversary

    Vice-president commits to ‘always’ support Israel’s defense as Biden condemns ‘vicious surge in antisemitism’ in US
  • The president of the Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisia in front of a huge picture of Kais Saied

    Tunisia’s president wins landslide second term after cracking down on opponents

    Kais Saied secured 90.7% of the vote in election on a turnout of just 27.7%, after detaining rival Ayachi Zammel

    • The politics sketch
      Suddenly, all MPs know where the Chagos Islands are and what’s best for them

      John Crace

    • Starmer urges all sides in Middle East to ‘step back from the brink’

    • World leaders mark first anniversary of 7 October attack on Israel

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