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Middle Eastern politics & society

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Henry Sokolski
    The old nuclear rules won’t stop proliferation

    So long as nuclear fuel-making is permitted and NPT violators can easily exit the treaty, more nations will seek the bomb

    Launch of a Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Abbas Araghchi
    Iran’s foreign minister: Israel’s war sabotaged diplomacy. The US can revive it

    Our commitment to acting responsibly to avoid a full-scale regional war should not be misinterpreted as weakness

    A damaged building that was hit by an Israeli air strike, in Tehran, Iran
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Middle East war
    No breakthrough on Middle East peace as Trump and Netanyahu meet

    US president hails ‘tremendous success’ with Israel and claims progress on plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza

    US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a dinner in the White House on Monday
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    News in-depth
    Algeria buffeted by winds of change in north Africa

    New tensions with the UAE, France, Russia and Israel have jolted authoritarian regime

    Brahim Ghali, president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and secretary-general of the Polisario front, salutes the flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ahead of a Polisario congress at the refugee camp of Dakhla
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Netanyahu and Trump to discuss new Gaza deal at White House

    Negotiators discuss terms of potential ceasefire with Hamas but big gaps persist as Israeli leader heads for Washington

    Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Donald Trump at the White House in April
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Iran
    Iran’s supreme leader appears in public for first time since Israeli attack

    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s attendance at ceremony follows speculation about his safety

    Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Shia ceremony in Tehran
  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel to join ceasefire talks despite ‘unacceptable’ response from Hamas

    Netanyahu says he will send a negotiating team to Doha to begin indirect negotiations aimed at halting the war in Gaza

    Smoke rises in Gaza following a military strike, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on Saturday
  • 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-depth
    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
    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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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?

  • 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
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    Trump says US would ‘absolutely’ bomb Iran again to stop enrichment

    President’s comments come as intelligence reports raise doubts about success of American raid on nuclear sites

    Donald Trump
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    Emile Hokayem
    The Iran threat will haunt the Gulf for years

    As Israel and Washington celebrate, there is a sense of dread and uncertainty throughout the region

  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel halts food aid deliveries to northern Gaza despite famine threat

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleges aid has been hijacked by Hamas, but provides no evidence

    Palestinian men protecting aid trucks in northern Gaza west of Beit Lahia on June 25 to stop looting
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Khamenei says US bombing of Iran ‘did not achieve anything’

    Supreme leader’s comments come amid conflicting accounts of the damage to country’s nuclear facilities

    Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    UK Jewish body suspends deputies over letter criticising Israeli offensive in Gaza

    Board of Deputies of British Jews says signatories to the letter had breached the body’s code of conduct

    An Israeli soldier hangs an Israeli flag on an armoured personnel carrier near the border with Gaza
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Military briefing: Israel and Iran size up war damage

    Satellite images show misfires in Jewish state and damage to Iranian nuclear sites as foes emerge from conflict

    Israeli attack on Evin prison, left, damage to Fordow nuclear site
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A fragile truce in the Middle East

    Trump should champion diplomatic efforts if he wants peace to endure

    Smoke rises in Tehran amid the third day of Israel’s waves of strikes against Iran
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    Iran
    Iran’s parliament votes to halt co-operation with nuclear watchdog

    Tehran expected to quickly implement proposal ending work with IAEA and suspending treaty commitments

    Reza Najafi
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Trump, Netanyahu and the new Middle East

    US and Israeli campaign to defang Iran could herald a fresh era of instability for the region

    (L-R) Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the shadow of US President Donald Trump
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