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  • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
    Iran
    Drones target Iranian military site in Isfahan

    Tehran acknowledges attack but stops short of attributing blame

    3 hours ago
  • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
    Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    Israel to strengthen West Bank settlements and loosen civilian gun laws

    Military and police units will be reinforced and national insurance rights of ‘families of terrorists’ withdrawn

    3 hours ago
  • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
    Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    Jerusalem hit by second shooting after synagogue attack leaves 7 dead

    Violence spirals after Israeli raid on refugee camp

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    Israeli jets bomb Gaza as tensions escalate

    Attack follows overnight rocket fire from Palestinian coastal enclave

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael
    Israeli tech sector warns of economic hit from Netanyahu’s hardline policies

    Executives say new government’s move to curb judicial powers will scare away vital investment to the self-styled Startup Nation

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    Israeli forces stage deadly raid on West Bank refugee camp

    Nine people including an elderly woman killed during Jenin shootout, say Palestine officials

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    News in-depthIran nuclear deal
    West grapples with dilemma over Iran nuclear talks

    Even as relations touch new lows, US and European officials are keeping the door open to diplomacy

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    Lebanon
    Lebanon prosecutor challenges reopening of Beirut explosion probe

    Investigation into 2020 tragedy had been frozen amid accusations of high-level political meddling and impropriety

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    OutlookSamer Al-Atrush
    Ronaldo’s debut makes for a delicate balancing act in Riyadh

    The Portuguese player has received a hero’s welcome, but human rights groups cry foul over ‘sportswashing’

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Iraq
    Iraq sacks central bank governor as dinar slides in value

    Former governor Ali Mohsen al-Allaq returns as Baghdad struggles with a lack of dollars

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Yezid Sayigh
    Sisi cannot ignore the Egyptian military’s economic role forever

    Cairo’s agreement with the IMF commits it to reducing the presence of the state in numerous sectors

  • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Egypt releases prominent businessmen detained on terrorism charges

    Safwan and Seif el-Din Thabet had been held for about two years without charge

  • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
    Israel
    Netanyahu removes key cabinet ally on orders of Israeli high court

    Prime minister insists his proposal to weaken powers of judiciary will proceed despite largest protest in a decade

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    Golf
    Saudi-backed LIV Golf to air on CW Network

    Breakaway tour had struggled to find a home on channels with existing commitments to PGA

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    Kim Ghattas
    Unrest and unsettled leaders bode ill for the Middle East in 2023

    From Israel to Iran, there is a lengthy list of potential problems in the region

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Israel
    Israel’s top court rules against appointment of Netanyahu ally

    High Court says Aryeh Deri cannot serve as minister because of criminal convictions

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Europe Express
    EU parliament graft scandal to widen as main suspect turns informant Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter: new Iran sanctions under discussion and a dispatch from Paris as strikes loom

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Egypt’s deepening economic crisis

    Sisi needs to shrink the role of the state and military-owned companies

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    The long shadow of Iraq and its lessons today

    Melvyn Leffler’s new history of the war against Saddam reveals how guilt, fear and hubris led to a fateful military intervention

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael
    Liberal Israelis express anguish at new administration’s rightward lurch

    Protesters vent anger at judiciary overhaul plan and what they see as alarming far-right rhetoric from Netanyahu’s coalition

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    UK foreign policy
    UK weighs designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organisation

    Foreign secretary James Cleverly says Tehran will be ‘held to account’ after execution of Iranian-British man

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    Lebanon
    European investigators arrive in Beirut for corruption probe

    Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh alleged to have laundered public money

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    News in-depthIran
    Raisi avoids blame as Iran’s pro-democracy forces direct anger elsewhere

    President has been largely ignored by reformists who have focused instead on wider Islamic regime

  • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
    Israel
    Thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu’s judicial reforms

    Hardline new government sparks alarm with sweeping plans to curb power of courts

  • Saturday, 14 January, 2023
    Iran
    UK recalls ambassador from Tehran after Iran executes Iranian-British man

    UK prime minister condemns execution for alleged spying as ‘cowardly act’

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