Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

Summer/Fall 2025

At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

At least 60 people, of which more than half are children, have been killed in fresh Israeli strikes on Gaza, local hospital officials said Wednesday. Despite the many dead, US President Donald Trump said “nothing’s going to jeapordise” the truce between Israel and Hamas, saying the deadly strikes were launched after the killing of an Israeli soldier “so the Israelis hit back. And they should hit back.” Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments. 

Testimonies from former detainees spotlight worsening conditions since October 7 2023 attack

Hamas is moving towards rejecting Trump's plan for Gaza, according to a senior official, amidst ongoing developments in the region.

The hurried diplomacy and backroom arm-twisting that shaped the White House plan

The White House published its plan ahead of a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Compelling evidence to suggest Lebanese Shia leader Musa al-Sadr was killed in Libya is uncovered by BBC.

Gulf nation backed Islamabad’s nuclear weapons programme, say experts. A new defence pact draws the Sunni allies closer

While attention has been focused on Gaza, Israel has undermined the delicate architecture of governance in the West Bank built up over three decades

Neife Awad, 31, takes off her sunglasses to reveal two empty eye sockets. Around them, a constellation of scars marks the moment when a booby-trapped pager exploded in her face, plunging her into...

After being postponed for several days, the coordination meeting between Lebanon and Syria finally took place on Monday in Beirut, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri, who welcomed a...

By Renad Mansour and Hamidreza AziziEditor’s introduction

SOUTH LEBANON — The Israeli air force carried out a series of strikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday afternoon, targeting several areas in the Jezzine district, north of the Litani River, our...

Where people once died in air strikes, now they are dying as they try to find food

YouTube video by Filippo Dionigi

Squaddities

Israel started the Iran war. Only America can finish it

The world would be safer if Iran abandoned its nuclear dreams, but that outcome may prove unattainable

Country would need bunker-busting bombs to take out reinforced atomic facilities