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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    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
    Israel insists on keeping troops in Gaza buffer zones after any peace

    Defence minister Israel Katz says military ‘is not evacuating areas that have been cleared and seized’

    North Gaza
  • 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
    Israel-Hamas war
    Thousands of Israeli military reservists call for deal with Hamas

    Prime minister’s decision to resume ferocious offensive in Gaza provokes growing backlash from troops

    Protesters hold up signs with photos of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hostages being held in the Gaza Strip at a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel on March 29 2025
  • 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
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The narrow window for a nuclear deal with Iran

    Trump team should accept that both Washington and Tehran need to make compromises

    Young women walk past a dove of peace mural in Tehran
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel bombs Gaza hospital as military expands offensive

    Al Ahli medical facility hit in strike was one of the few hospitals still operating in Gaza City

    A Palestinian medical worker surveys a destroyed building
  • 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
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    Trump announces ‘very high level’ talks with Iran

    US president hints at deal on Tehran’s nuclear weapons programme after meeting Netanyahu

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Middle East war
    Israel widens air strikes against neighbours in escalating campaign

    Bombing in Lebanon and Syria come alongside renewed military offensive in Gaza

    A man walks next to rubble after an Israeli air strike targeted an apartment building in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    Israel blocks two UK MPs from entering country

    British foreign secretary says treatment of Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed is ‘unacceptable and counter-productive’

    Portrait photos of Labour MPs Abtisam Mohamed, left, and Yuan Yang
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Netanyahu says Israeli forces to seize more territory in Gaza

    Prime minister says country has ‘shifted gears’ in its efforts to force Hamas to release 59 hostages it still holds

    Palestinians walk along a dusty street lined with debris and destroyed buildings in Gaza City on April 1 2025
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Kim Ghattas
    After the euphoria, Lebanon and Syria realise what lies ahead

    In both countries, the mood is newly sober as a system of vested interests fights back

  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    News in-depthIsrael
    Netanyahu pushes Israel to brink of constitutional crisis

    Mass protests and strike threats rock country amid fears prime minister will defy Supreme Court

    Demonstrators in Tel Aviv hold posters and placards including a photo of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a sign reading ‘CRIME minister’ in yellow ink over a black background
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Netanyahu gives testimony to Israel police over ‘Qatar Gate’ trial

    Prime minister’s mounting legal troubles bring him into increasing conflict with legal and investigatory bodies

    Benjamin Netanyahu waves
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel orders evacuation of Rafah as it steps up offensive

    Civilians told to flee to ‘humanitarian area’ as aid groups warn of worsening disaster in Gaza

    Displaced Palestinians arriving in Khan Younis, Gaza
  • 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
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Israel
    Israel overhauls judge appointments in face of protests

    Opposition says law to bring politicians into selection process will bring Israel ‘to the brink of civil war’

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu followed by national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in parliament in Jerusalem on March 27 2025
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Israel
    Israel passes budget in boost to Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition

    Opposition condemns bill that will lead to massive increase in military and defence spending

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his finance minister Bezalel Smotrich
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
    The Israel-Hamas war in maps and charts

    A visual guide to the conflict

  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel readies plans for occupation of Gaza

    New military leadership, with far right’s support, draws up drastically harsher proposal to destroy Hamas

    Israeli tanks positioned near the Israel-Gaza border on March 18 2025
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Israel
    Israel’s political crisis deepens after vote against attorney-general

    Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet withdraws confidence in Gali Baharav-Miara

    Gali Baharav-Miara
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    Middle East war
    Israel strikes targets in Lebanon following rocket attack

    Exchange of fire threatens truce that ended 13 months of fighting

    An Israeli soldier stands guard near the Lebanese border
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Israel
    Israeli cabinet sacks head of Shin Bet intelligence agency

    Move set to intensify split between Netanyahu government and legal authorities

    Ronen Bar, then chief of Israel’s domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery in May 2024
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The Gaza ceasefire must be restored

    Donald Trump is the one world leader with significant leverage over Israel’s premier

    People walk amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike in Jabalia
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