Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • The UK should press ahead with the inevitable on tax
    • Linda Yaccarino steps down as chief executive of X
    • Britain, France and the necessary relationship
    • Dutch pension funds set to sell €125bn of government bonds
    • Nvidia becomes first company to reach $4tn in market value
  • UK
    Sections
    • UK Home
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
    Most Read
    • The UK should press ahead with the inevitable on tax
    • Britain, France and the necessary relationship
    • Don’t believe the myth: Britain’s services have been hit hard by Brexit
    • UK landlords quit sector as number of homes to let falls, survey says
    • Reeves to launch permanent mortgage guarantee scheme
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • Linda Yaccarino steps down as chief executive of X
    • Moët Hennessy sexual harassment case shines light on company’s culture
    • F1 boss Christian Horner sacked from Red Bull Racing
    • Dutch pension funds set to sell €125bn of government bonds
    • Nvidia becomes first company to reach $4tn in market value
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • Linda Yaccarino steps down as chief executive of X
    • Europe just years away from uncrewed fighter jets, says defence start-up Helsing
    • Revolut in talks to raise new funding at $65bn valuation
    • Nvidia becomes first company to reach $4tn in market value
    • Musk’s Grok AI chatbot praises Hitler on X
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Monetary Policy Radar
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • The UK should press ahead with the inevitable on tax
    • Dutch pension funds set to sell €125bn of government bonds
    • Nvidia becomes first company to reach $4tn in market value
    • Revolut in talks to raise new funding at $65bn valuation
    • A new twist on an old bet with Buffett
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • The UK should press ahead with the inevitable on tax
    • Britain, France and the necessary relationship
    • Don’t believe the myth: Britain’s services have been hit hard by Brexit
    • Why carmakers need to bring back buttons
    • Manchester prepares to welcome home Oasis
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • Memo from Paris: Simon Kuper takes a dip in the Seine
    • TALA founder: ‘We weren’t going to make payroll — so I sold my car’
    • Networking hots up in the yoga studio
    • Hot tickets: the rise of London’s day-festival scene   
    • How to make work more fun
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Puzzles
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • Why carmakers need to bring back buttons
    • Manchester prepares to welcome home Oasis
    • Lululemon vs Costco: the fashion copycat fight
    • The return of the superstar pianist
    • Salade Niçoise, but make it spicy
  • HTSI
  1. World
  2. Middle East & North Africa
  • Middle East war
  • Israel-Hamas war
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • UK
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

Middle East & North Africa

  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Middle East war
    UN pulls inspectors from Iran as Israel aims to maintain ‘aerial superiority’

    Atomic watchdog’s withdrawal comes despite no independent assessment of damage to Tehran’s nuclear facilities

    An Israeli F-15 Eagle fighter jet flies over the northern city of Haifa
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    News in-depthMiddle Eastern politics & society
    Saudi Arabia sticks with Iran after Israel war

    Netanyahu floats reviving normalisation with the kingdom but Riyadh views state as an increasingly destabilising force

    Image shows aftermath of an Israeli missile strike of an Iranian state television studio in Tehran on June 16
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Mediators move closer to securing Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza

    Progress on deal, which calls for ‘serious’ talks to permanently end the war, comes as Trump prepares to meet Netanyahu

    Lian Al-Za’anin is comforted by relatives as she mourns the loss of her father
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Television
    The BBC dropped ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ but its images will stay with you

    Now on Channel 4, the film investigates the detention and killing of Palestinian medics — and illustrates why the corporation needs to find a way to tell such stories

    A large, partly burnt out hospital building pockmarked with bullet holes
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Aslı Aydıntaşbaş
    Turkey and Israel risk sliding towards confrontation

    The fallout from the Iran war could end up igniting the region’s next great rivalry

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    UK politics
    MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation

    MPs back UK government’s proposal by 385 votes to 26 to ban the pro-Palestinian activist group

    Activists from Palestine Action occupied the roof of Guardtech, a company they accuse of being in business with Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems in Brandon, England on July 1
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Trump says Israel has agreed to conditions for 60-day ceasefire with Hamas

    Qatar and Egypt will deliver the proposal to the group, according to US president

    A small Israeli vehicle is surrounded by dust and the wreckage from bombed buildings in the Gaza Strip on July 1 2025
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Shipping
    Sabotage suspected as mystery blasts hit oil tankers

    Five vessels hit with limpet mines this year shortly after visiting Russian ports

    Vilamoura tanker
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Behind the Money podcast19 min listen
    How oil traders called the Middle East war

    The oil market predicted the twists and turns of the Israel-Iran conflict

  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Lana Nusseibeh
    Trump must lead the way to a comprehensive Middle East peace deal

    Whatever path we choose will shape the region’s future for decades

    US President Donald Trump and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan review honour guards in Abu Dhabi
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Oil & Gas industry
    Gulf oil companies slow $60bn acquisition spree as crude prices fall

    Adnoc and Aramco shift focus to dividends in tougher environment for deals

    Saudi Aramco headquarters in Riyadh, pictured November 5 2024
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    US foreign policy
    Trump lifts most US sanctions on Syria

    President’s executive order also reviews Damascus’s designation as state sponsor of terrorism

    A man walks through the city of Aleppo, Syria, on June 23 2025
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Netanyahu says Iran war creates ‘new opportunities’ to free Gaza hostages

    Israeli prime minister’s comments come as country expresses interest in building ties with Lebanon and Syria

    Demonstrators in Tel Aviv, Israel take part in a protest to demand the immediate release of hostages held in Gaza , on June 28 2025
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    UK sale of F-35 fighter jet parts used by Israel ruled legal by High Court

    Palestinian group had sued government over supply of components to global pool used by allies

    An Israeli F-35 fighter jet
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Understanding Iran: books recommended by FT readers

    The best reads on the country’s local, regional and global history, as chosen by you

  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Iran could restart enriching uranium in months, says nuclear watchdog chief

    Comments by IAEA’s Rafael Grossi follow week of conflicting claims about damage done by US and Israeli strikes

    People in Tehran attend the funeral procession of Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists and others killed in Israeli strikes on June 28
  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Ankit Panda
    Iran attack could be the death knell for nuclear non-proliferation

    More countries will seek atomic weapons unless Europe and its allies defend a flawed but vital treaty

    An Iranian technician in overall, gloves, hairnet and facemask works in the control room of the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities
  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Nuclear proliferation
    Israel 1967, Iran 2025: two countries on the threshold of a nuclear bomb

    Facing an existential threat in the 1960s, Israel hastily assembled an atomic device. What will Iran choose to do?

  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Food security
    Middle East tensions could trigger food price shock, warns fertiliser boss

    Fertiliser prices have been ‘extremely volatile’ in the past two weeks, says CEO of leading crop nutrients group Yara

    Svein Tore Holsether
  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Liberia
    The extraordinary life and mysterious death of a carbon credits broker

    How an Italian fugitive used diplomatic immunity to work with Dubai royalty and Liberia’s fallen hero

    Samuele Landi from a film still from ‘The Legend of Landi’
  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu weighs his next move after Iran war

    Prime minister has sought to capitalise on domestic support for 12-day conflict to shore up his divisive premiership

    Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Professor Alon Chen, President of the Weizmann Institute of Science, as he visits the facility’s site which was hit by an Iranian missile barrage, in the central city of Rehovot on June 20
  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Iran holds funeral procession for top commanders killed in Israeli strikes

    Mourners take to Tehran streets but supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei does not attend traditional prayers

    People attend the Tehran funeral procession of Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists and others killed in Israeli strikes
  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    Jo Ellison
    The politics of joy

    Can we justify lightheartedness at a time of deep uncertainty?

    A group of young women holding wine glasses smile for a selfie on a sunny day
  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum has all the makings of must-see destination

    Impressive in size, design and content, the GEM’s opening may be tainted by politics and connotations of authoritarianism

    A gigantic ancient Egyptian statue of a barefoot, bare-chested male figure towers over visitors in the cavernous space of an ultra modern museum
  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    Swamp Notes podcast18 min listen
    John Bolton on the Iran war that wasn’t

    Donald Trump’s former national security adviser reckons with the president’s move to bomb Iran

Previous page2Next page

Recommended

Follow us on X @FTMidEastAfrica

Join us at an FT Live event

Discover unmissable flagship events and members only communities to expand your thinking and elevate your career

FT Live
Casablanca Business Forum 2025
Positioning Africa's companies for growth in a changing global economy
Friday, 19 SeptemberCasablanca, Morocco
FT Live
Asset Management Excellence Awards - Middle East
Honouring distinction in the region's investment sector
Wednesday, 11 February 2026Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Explore all events

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareersSuppliers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT Live EventsFT ForumsFT Leaders Academy

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2025. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:UK
International
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • UK
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Monetary Policy Radar
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Puzzles
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Schools
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • FT Leaders Academy
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In