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Andrew England

Middle East Editor

Andrew England is the Middle East editor. He was previously MIddle East and Africa news editor. Prior to that, he spent 17 years based in the Middle East and Africa as a foreign correspondent. His posts included Southern Africa bureau chief, Abu Dhabi bureau chief and Middle East and North Africa correspondent.

He joined the Financial Times in 2004 as East Africa correspondent. Before joining the FT, he was East Africa correspondent for the Associated Press.

Email Andrew England @cornishft  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Saudi defence minister visits Iran ahead of US talks

    Prince Khalid bin Salman is highest-ranking royal to hold meetings in Tehran in decades

    Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammed Bagheri and Saudi Arabia’s Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in Tehran
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Members of UK’s largest Jewish body condemn Israel’s offensive in Gaza

    Letter underscores concern in Jewish community over Netanyahu government’s violence against Palestinians

    A pregnant woman is rescued from her home after an Israeli army attack in Gaza
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    US envoy calls for Iran to ‘eliminate’ nuclear programme

    Steve Witkoff’s comments come after he signalled Washington might accept limited uranium enrichment by Tehran

    Steve Witkoff, left, and Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, right
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    News in-depthUS-Iran tensions
    US and Iran agree to follow-up talks over nuclear crisis

    Steve Witkoff and Abbas Araghchi met briefly after indirect negotiations in Oman

    US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    The Big Read
    Is Iran on a collision course with the west?

    Time is running out for an unpredictable US president and a distrustful Iranian supreme leader to avoid dangerous escalation

    A photo montage of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and nuclear weapon facilities
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Turkish politics
    Tens of thousands protest in Turkey against arrest of Erdoğan rival

    Detention of Istanbul’s popular mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu galvanises opposition and leads to stock market plunge

    People light flares as they protest against the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, in Istanbul on Friday
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    News in-depthTurkish politics
    Erdoğan’s move against main rival plunges Turkey into crisis

    Politicians and investors say the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu marks a dangerous turning point

    Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, left, and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, right
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Turkish politics
    Turkish police detain Erdoğan’s main political rival

    Stocks fall as Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a key challenger to president, held

    Ekrem İmamoğlu speaks at a rally with a large Turkish flag in the background
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    Houthi movement
    Trump threatens Iran with ‘dire’ consequences for Houthi attacks

    Militants claim strike on American aircraft carrier after US president orders largest military operation of his second term

    People gather near a house hit by a US strike in Saada, Yemen
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    US strikes Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen

    Trump warns Tehran against supporting militant group, prompting angry response

  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    News in-depthAccounting & Consulting services
    End of ‘blank cheque’ era for outside consultants in Saudi Arabia

    Western firms profited as kingdom launched ‘giga-projects’ but market is slowing as Riyadh reins in spending

    Aerial view Riyadh at night
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Syrian crisis
    Syrian government agrees deal to integrate Kurdish forces

    Agreement will bring a bigger swath of fractured nation under the control of Ahmed al-Sharaa’s administration

    Interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa, right, and SDF leader Mazloum Abdi shake hands on the deal on March 10 2025
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    PwC
    PwC and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund clash over hiring of executive

    ‘Friction and angst’ over Neom auditor preceded Public Investment Fund’s ban on Big Four firm

    graphic showing Neom, a futuristic development along the Red Sea
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    InterviewTurkey
    The ex-spymaster shaping Turkey’s rise

    Foreign minister Hakan Fidan says in rare interview that Ankara would join post-Nato European security pact

  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Trump warns it is ‘over’ for Hamas unless hostages are released

    US president says Washington will send ‘Israel everything it needs to finish the job’ in Gaza

    Hamas militants parade newly-released Israeli hostages
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Arab states endorse alternative to Trump’s postwar Gaza plan

    Proposals envisage transitional rule by Palestinian technocrats and role for UN peacekeepers in the enclave and West Bank

    Beit Lahia in northern Gaza
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Israel seeks Gaza ceasefire extension while shunning talks to end war

    First phase of deal with Hamas to halt fighting is meant to end this weekend

    A Palestinian girl stands at the remains of her family’s destroyed house where she takes shelter
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    The Big Read
    Can Syria’s new rulers sustain its fragile peace?

    Order is being maintained by a patchwork of factions. Combining them into a national security apparatus is a delicate process

  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    Syrian crisis
    ‘It smells of blood and barrel bombs’: Syrians start trying to rebuild

    People exiled from the town of Saraqib rejoiced when the Assad regime fell. Then they went home — and found ruins

    People repaint part of their home which was damaged during the war in Saraqib, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria in January 2025
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Europe works with Arab states on alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan

    Foreign ministers of Germany, France, UK and Italy hold talks with key allies on future of enclave

    Palestinian women and children stand outside their tents among the rubble of destroyed buildings in Jabalia in northern Gaza on February 13 2025
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel threatens to resume war against Hamas if it fails to release hostages by Saturday

    PM Benjamin Netanyahu orders IDF to mass around Gaza as Donald Trump holds meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah

    Displaced Palestinians head northwards inside the Gaza Strip
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Jordan’s king to meet Trump in push against Gaza takeover plan

    King Abdullah will be first Arab leader to visit US president as proposal to ‘clean out’ enclave alarms regional officials

    US President Donald Trump, left, and Jordan’s King Abdullah meeting in the White House, Washington, US in June 2018
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    Rachman Review podcast27 min listen
    Trump sets his sights on Gaza property deal

    And Iraqi president says his country is finally at peace

  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    Global InsightIsrael-Hamas war
    Trump’s dangerous plan to take over Gaza

    US president’s outlandish idea has dramatically raised stakes and would create another catastrophe for Palestinians

    Donald Trump sitting with Benjamin Netanyahu in front of a fireplace at the Oval Office
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip

    Saudi Arabia pushes back on president’s plan to resettle Palestinians

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with President Donald Trump in the White House
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