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Israel's war on Gaza

9 months ago

Live: Israeli air raids kill 35 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn

4 hours ago

Israel says it will continue blocking aid to Gaza and troops will remain 'indefinitely'

4 hours ago

Israel allows hundreds of Jews to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque for first time

6 hours ago

Even if Israel's Gaza plan failed, it will have left behind a 21st-century blueprint for ethnic cleansing

17 hours ago

Hezbollah at a crossroads as Lebanon pushes for arms monopoly

14 hours ago

Arrest warrant sought for Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on visit to UK

9 hours ago

Social media users fume after 'Free Palestine' flag removed at Bernie Sanders rally

6 hours ago

UK police accused of being heavy-handed at protest against BBC coverage on Gaza

5 hours ago

London conference on Sudan a 'diplomatic flop' as RSF declares parallel government

9 hours ago

UK politicians slam Lammy over secret meeting with Israeli foreign minister

13 hours ago

US cited inaccurate tabloid accounts in its case against Mahmoud Khalil, documents show

5 hours ago

UK: Members of prominent Jewish group break with leaders to condemn Israel over Gaza

10 hours ago

Tunisia using arbitrary arrests to silence dissidents, report finds

10 hours ago

US lobbied Turkey and Israel to hold military deconfliction talks on Syria

13 hours ago

Harry and Meghan's charity cuts ties with Muslim group over pro-Palestine comments

14 hours ago

Sudan's war is not just 'another African conflict'. When will the world step in?

1 day ago

Why freezing Iran's nuclear programme is the best path forward

1 day ago

US: Zio-McCarthyism, a 21st century political purge that has dangerous overtones

2 days ago

Populists are not fighting in the streets. The battle line is democratic rights

2 days ago

Iran-US tensions: There's no room for further miscalculations

5 days ago

Can the US push Lebanon to normalise with Israel?

5 days ago

Why is the New England Journal of Medicine promoting 'health bridges' while Gaza's hospitals burn?

6 days ago

Rafah became my home after displacement. It is now being erased

4 days ago

Deportation of British MPs aims to hide Israeli crimes

6 days ago

Israel has become like the Soviet Union in its dying days

7 days ago

Israel's genocide aims to revive the old Zionist dream of Gaza without Palestinians

8 days ago

Why the world should boycott Trump's America

8 days ago

Gaza medic killings: How a voice from beyond the grave destroyed Israel's lie

9 days ago

An hour from Gaza, Israelis sip coffee as genocide rages

9 days ago

Germany's support for Israel's far-right alliance shatters its 'denazified' facade

11 days ago

The graver Israel's atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows

11 days ago

War on Gaza: My son was born into a world on fire

12 days ago

Israel has always wanted to expel Palestinians. Now it's saying the quiet part out loud

12 days ago

Despite genocide and hate, Arab Americans will celebrate our heritage

13 days ago

In Gaza, bread is life - and now all bakeries are closed

13 days ago

Mahsa Amini uprising: What do revolutionaries want when everything has already been tried?

9 days ago

War on Gaza: How Palestinians are resisting existential despair

14 days ago

Bangladesh restores 'except Israel' disclaimer on passports, barring travel

1 day ago

StopAntisemitism account 'delusional' for demanding investigation into Ms Rachel, critics say

7 days ago

'America First?': US under fire for ignoring Israel's killing of Palestinian-American teen

9 days ago

'It's only a matter of days': Palestinians bid farewell as Israel rains bombs on Gaza

12 days ago

'StopAntisemitism' account slammed for doxxing pro-Palestinian students

15 days ago

Studio Ghibli: Israel's 'hijacking' of iconic art style 'sugarcoats its genocide', say critics

15 days ago

Snow White star Rachel Zegler celebrated for refusing to delete 'free Palestine' post

20 days ago

Verdict holding Greenpeace liable for $660m called an 'attack' on free speech

27 days ago

Thousands online react to detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu

28 days ago

'Utter carnage': Outrage over images of children killed in Israel's Gaza strikes

29 days ago

Trump widely condemned for deploying 'Palestinian' as racial slur against Jewish senator

1 month ago

Diego Garcia: The Indian Ocean base the US can use to target Iran

19 days ago

How BlackRock and an Italian shipping dynasty are upending Middle East's port business

21 days ago

Washington is in meltdown over Signal. But not because US is bombing Yemen

21 days ago

Exclusive: Jordan proposes exiling 3,000 Hamas members from Gaza to end Israel's war

24 days ago

UAE lobbying Trump administration to reject Arab League Gaza plan, officials say

30 days ago

Exclusive: Gulf states linked to Israeli businesses on UN settlements blacklist

1 month ago

New Ofsted chair Hamid Patel said 'Trojan Horse' scandal alienated Muslims

1 month ago

A weekend from hell in coastal Syria

1 month ago

What happens to the Middle East if Russia and the US stop being enemies?

1 month ago

Displaced families in West Bank camps face Ramadan of 'humiliation and uncertainty'

1 month ago

Tunisian trial of alleged 'plot' against the state decried as travesty of justice

1 month ago

Muawiya: The Ramadan series about an early Islamic ruler that's causing a stir

1 month ago

Kenize Mourad: The Ottoman princess boycotted in France for supporting Palestine

4 days ago

Ten years after the air strikes began, Yemenis hope for an end to 'journey of suffering'

17 days ago

How Abu Dhabi built an axis of secessionists across the region

19 days ago

Revealed: How the UK continued selling arms after Yemen massacre

21 days ago

Are Arab dissidents facing a new wave of repression?

1 month ago

Eyes were wet with tears, children cried. The long walk home to northern Gaza

2 months ago

What made Benjamin Netanyahu?

28 days ago

They won the war. Can Syria's new leaders rebuild the country?

2 months ago

In search of a coherent Labour policy on Gaza

3 months ago

Is it a fake? The mystery of the last Ottoman caliph's secret plan

4 months ago

The Message: How Palestine changed Ta-Nehisi Coates's view of justice

4 months ago

Francesca Albanese: 'International law is on a knife's edge' over Gaza inaction

2 months ago

'Our lives are wasted': Palestinians recall horrors of Israel's Shujaiya strikes

6 days ago

Egypt staged pro-Palestine protest during Macron's visit to Gaza border

7 days ago

Exclusive: Hamas launches legal challenge against UK terror designation

7 days ago

Witness to media tent bombing: 'We did everything to save Mansour'

8 days ago

South Africa: Anger grows over failure to prosecute nationals fighting for Israel

15 days ago

Gaza's Eid marred by Israeli massacres of children and expulsion orders

16 days ago

'I no longer have a sister': Palestinians recall horrors of renewed Israeli bombing

19 days ago

Twice engaged, twice bereaved: Palestinian loses two fiances in Israeli strikes

22 days ago

'They said it would stop': One month on, killings persist in Syria's Alawi heartlands

5 days ago

Turkey and Israel mull deconfliction line in Syria, sources say

9 days ago

Turkish foreign minister says Ankara wants no conflict with Israel in Syria

12 days ago

Turkey moves to take control of Syria's strategic T4 air base: Sources

15 days ago

SDF withdraws from key Syrian dam after agreement with Damascus

4 days ago

Israeli army organises hiking tours inside occupied Syrian territory

12 days ago

Syria criticises Israel's 'impunity' after air strikes on its territory

13 days ago

Syrians mark first Eid al-Fitr after the fall of Bashar al-Assad

16 days ago

Israeli dawn strike on Beirut suburb kills four

15 days ago

Israeli air strikes target southern Beirut

19 days ago

'My intestines were outside my body': Israel's deliberate targeting of Lebanese healthcare workers

1 month ago

Israeli settlers storm purported rabbi's shrine in Lebanon

1 month ago

Hezbollah withdraws from majority of military sites in southern Lebanon

4 days ago

Lebanon bids farewell to the Nasrallah era

1 month ago

Lebanon: Hundreds of thousands attend Hassan Nasrallah's funeral

1 month ago

US proposes deploying military contractors in bid to make Israel leave Lebanon

1 month ago

RSF fighters commit widespread sexual violence in Sudan, say survivors

5 days ago

Full text of ICJ speech accusing UAE of complicity in genocide in Sudan

5 days ago

Sudan tells ICJ that UAE is complicit in genocide

6 days ago

Watch in full: ICJ hears Sudan's case accusing UAE of 'complicity in genocide'

5 days ago

'We've come back from hell': Sudanese jubilant after army retakes Khartoum from RSF

19 days ago

Key Coca-Cola and Pepsi ingredient 'controlled by RSF paramilitary in Sudan'

29 days ago

UK enrages Sudanese army government by inviting UAE to London conference

1 month ago

Sudan's biggest self-described 'jihadi' group says it will disband once RSF defeated

1 month ago

UN report cites 'multiple flights' from UAE to Chad, possibly arms transfers to Sudan's RSF

1 day ago

London conference on Sudan held as massacres unfold in North Darfur

1 day ago

How Unrwa school closures could damage the education of hundreds of Palestinian children

2 days ago

What is the Palestinian Authority and why does it matter?

12 days ago

The losers and worse losers of Trump's tariffs on the Middle East and North Africa

13 days ago

Israel's war on Gaza: What are crimes against humanity?

5 days ago

Israel's war on Gaza: What is the definition of a war crime?

1 month ago

Israel's war on Gaza: The meaning of genocide

29 days ago

International law explained: What are genocide and war crimes?

1 month ago

Betar: Who is the far-right Jewish-American group calling for 'blood in Gaza?'

1 month ago

A Saudi-Egyptian rivalry? What the 2025 Ramadan season taught us about the Arab TV landscape

1 day ago

Gaza genocide: How the hell did this happen, asks Pankaj Mishra

15 days ago

Eid al-Fitr 2025: When is it and everything else you need to know

19 days ago

Berlinale 2025: 'Khartoum' stands out amidst tepid Middle Eastern offerings

26 days ago

American fascism: Sue Coe's new book fails to realise Trump is not an aberration

26 days ago

Who was Ibn Arabi? The medieval Sufi master of Damascus

30 days ago

Progressive except for Palestine: Berlinale 2025 and the politics of omission

1 month ago

'No Other Land': Israeli-Palestinian film wins Oscar for best documentary feature

1 month ago

'No Other Land' captures the Palestinian spirit but falls short on Israeli society

1 month ago

Ramadan 2025: When does it start and everything else you need to know

1 month ago

How a murky security crackdown in Egypt snuffed out South Sinai's hiking economy

1 month ago

'I'm not German, I'm not Syrian. I'm in between': Shkoon on uniting Arab and western musical culture

1 month ago

'Get In': The plot involving a pro-Israel Irishman that helped Keir Starmer to power

1 month ago

Cartoonist Joe Sacco on Gaza: Is this land ground zero for the apocalypse?

2 months ago

Being Jewish after Gaza: Peter Beinart's 'reckoning' is a bid to rehabilitate Zionism

2 months ago

Remembering Ahmed Adaweyah: The mutinous voice of Egypt's working class

2 months ago

Netflix's Mo season two: A case of diminishing returns

2 months ago

Life and death in the West Bank: Dutch-Palestinian photographer Sakir Khader's first solo show

2 months ago

Omar El Akkad: 'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This'

2 months ago

'In a dictatorship, metaphors can save you': The poetry of Ghayath Almadhoun

2 months ago

An American surgeon in Gaza describes what he saw

7 days ago

Netanyahu commits 'a bloodbath in Gaza' to save himself

28 days ago

Hamas expects another war with Israel - this time in the West Bank

2 months ago

Netanyahu's total victory narrative has collapsed

2 months ago

The Muslim senator who took on Australia's government

3 months ago

Palestinians must audition for 'our own humanity'

3 months ago

The Syrian dream rises from the ashes of Assad's nightmare

4 months ago

Trump's intrusive demons and Israel's 'enlightened cause'

5 months ago

Americans 'socialised' into capitalism, racism and Zionism

5 months ago

Jill Stein: 'The Democrats have no one to blame but themselves'

5 months ago

Ilan Pappe on the birth of Israel and the death of Zionism

5 months ago

'He was sent by God': Talking to Trump supporters about Israel

5 months ago

White supremacy & complicity: How the West enables Israel's war on Gaza | Pankaj Mishra

16 days ago

Inside Trump's crackdown on Columbia University | Bruce Robbins

26 days ago

This Jewish academic shared an anti-Zionist post. She was then fired | Maura Finkelstein

1 month ago

How Jewish scholars are attacked in America for calling out Gaza genocide | Raz Segal

1 month ago

Trump, tariffs and Brics: Why the US is in trouble | Richard D Wolff

1 month ago

'Dictatorial power': How Elon Musk is taking over the MAGA movement | Rick Perlstein

2 months ago

'A war on children': Doctor tells of harrowing experience in Gaza | Victoria Rose

2 months ago

'If you're an Arab journalist, you're political': Western media & Gaza | Hind Hassan

3 months ago

How large parts of Israeli society have come to justify war crimes

3 months ago

What exactly happened in Syria's 13-year civil war

3 months ago

Azzam Tamimi on Yahya Sinwar's legacy, Israel and the likelihood of a regional war

5 months ago

Joseph Massad: How Israel functions as an extension of US interests

1 month ago

Jill Stein: The woman trying to upend the US political system

6 months ago

Cornel West on his life and what inspired him to run for US president

7 months ago

Andrew Feinstein: The anti-apartheid activist trying to stop Keir Starmer

9 months ago

Mads Gilbert: The doctor who's witnessed Israel's wars against Palestinians since 1982

9 months ago

Red Crescent massacre: Palestinians are betrayed in a world ruled by outlaws

14 days ago

Witkoff and Trump's Gaza dream has one thing missing: Palestinians

22 days ago

Palestinian children are the future. That's why Israel is killing them

22 days ago

Israel's Ramadan massacre obliterates any remaining western claims of moral leadership

28 days ago

In Trump's new order, anyone can become Palestinian

30 days ago

Why Trump's team is negotiating with Hamas

1 month ago

Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced

1 month ago

Trump's Gaza takeover plan is dead. Will he let Israel drag him into endless war?

1 month ago

How Netanyahu's alliance with the far right could be Israel's undoing

1 month ago

Cairo summit: US-Israeli rejection of the Arab Gaza plan is a moment of truth

1 month ago

Syria must put an end to Israel's incursions - and fast

1 month ago

Gaza has survived for thousands of years. It cannot be erased by Trump and Israel

1 month ago

Gaza transfer plan: The banality of ethnic cleansing

1 month ago

From South Africa to Palestine: Trump's war to defend apartheid

2 months ago

How Trump and Netanyahu forced Mohammed bin Salman to draw a line on Palestine

2 months ago

Why Israel cannot tolerate Palestinian expressions of joy, anger and grief

2 months ago

Gaza is a Palestinian homeland, not Trump's luxury resort

28 days ago

Israel's use of AI in Gaza is a terrifying model coming to a country near you

2 months ago

Gaza ceasefire: The Palestinian spirit will never be broken

28 days ago