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    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Saudi official meets Palestinians as diplomats step up talks on regional accord

      Envoy’s visit to occupied West Bank comes as US leads efforts to broker grand Middle East pact with Israel

      Nayef bin Bandar al-Sudairi and others in the West Bank
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Yemen
      Houthis blamed for Bahraini soldiers’ deaths on Yemen border

      Drone strike comes despite efforts to secure long-term peace with Saudi-led coalition

      Yemeni troopers loyal to the Houthis march during a military parade in Sana’a this month commemorating the 9th anniversary of seizure of northern Yemen
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      News in-depthIran
      ‘Robots can help issue a fatwa’: Iran’s clerics look to harness AI

      Religious leaders in the holy city of Qom believe that artificial intelligence can strengthen the country’s Islamic character

      A Muslim Shiite cleric walks past the house of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in the holy city of Qom
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Israeli opposition rejects idea for Saudi Arabia to enrich its own uranium

      Civilian nuclear programme is one element of a highly complex US-brokered proposal to normalise Israel-Saudi relations

      Yair Lapid delivers a speech
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      China welcomes Syrian president Assad for summit

      First visit since start of civil war as Beijing expands its influence in Middle East

      Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad, centre, and his wife Asma arrive in Hangzhou, China on Thursday
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Saudi Arabia
      Saudi Arabia says solving Palestinian issue crucial to deal with Israel

      Crown prince also warns US that Riyadh will seek nuclear bomb if Iran secures atomic weapon

      Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Biden and Netanyahu vow to work to normalise Israel-Saudi relations

      US president pledges to address ‘hard issues’ at talks with Israel’s prime minister in New York

      Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu, left, talks with US president Joe Biden on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Libya’s flood disaster was partly man-made

      Western governments should focus on supporting efforts to stabilise the country

      A survivor sits on the rubble of a destroyed building in Libya’s eastern city of Derna on September 18
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Sanam Vakil
      Western policy towards Iran lacks both goals and goalposts

      The release of prisoners and anniversary of the killing of Mahsa Amini highlight a failure to solve the challenges from Tehran

      A woman stands on a car roof as a huge throng of people fill the road ahead
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Yemen
      US pushes Saudi Arabia and UAE to heal divisions over Yemen

      Washington worries differences between the Gulf neighbours could upend efforts to secure deal to end civil war

      Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the UAE’s President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      US-Iran tensions
      Iran nuclear crisis lingers for White House despite prisoner swap

      More diplomacy possible in New York this week, but rivals must overcome decades of distrust

      US nationals Siamak Namazi, Emad Sharqi, and Morad Tahbaz, who were among five prisoners released from Iran, disembark from a plane upon landing in Doha, Qatar
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Israel
      Israel files complaint after German ambassador attends judicial overhaul hearing

      Netanyahu’s government considers diplomat’s presence in Israeli court an ‘interference’ in its domestic affairs

      Steffen Seibert, Germany’s ambassador to Israel
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      US-Iran tensions
      Iran releases prisoners in swap deal with US

      Exchange agreed after months of negotiations has potential to de-escalate tensions between arch foes

      Siamak Namazi and Morad Tahbaz, who were released during a prisoner swap deal between the US and Iran, arrive at Doha International Airport, Qatar
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Iran
      Cristiano Ronaldo flies in to offer Iranians rare glimpse of football’s elite

      Visit by the decorated player, whose Saudi team play in Tehran, provides country’s fans with a moment to celebrate

      Cristiano Ronaldo and his Al-Nassr teammates arrive at the Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      News in-depthLibya
      ‘Brothers to the rescue’: Devastated Libyans search for survivors and answers

      A week after Storm Daniel, residents of Derna are still reeling from the destruction

      Fire and rescue brigades search for survivors: authorities have not communicated an official death toll as the scale of the disaster complicates the rescue mission
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Bahrain
      US and Bahrain sign security deal as Washington seeks fresh Gulf ties

      Agreement seen as possible blueprint for accords with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

      Bahrain’s prime minister, Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, left, and US secretary of state Antony Blinken sign a security and economic agreement in Washington on Wednesday
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Israel
      Israel’s top court hears challenge to pillar of judicial overhaul

      Nation’s checks and balances at stake in case centred on law passed by Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right administration

      People gather outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Monday during a demonstration against the government’s judicial reforms
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Israel delegation visits Saudi Arabia as Unesco meeting observers

      Meeting — though not bilateral — marks latest sign of developing ties as US pushes for Middle East realignment

      A Palestinian protester holds a tear gas canister fired by Israeli forces during a demonstration along the border with the Gaza Strip
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      UAE boosts trade with Iran after eased restrictions on business activity

      Flourishing relationship reflects Gulf state’s pivot towards regional de-escalation

      Shipping containers at Khalifa port
    • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
      G20
      US and EU back new India-Middle East transport corridor

      Project agreed on G20 sidelines would counter growing Chinese influence in Arab states

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Jan Egeland
      We can’t wait 30 more years for another breakthrough in the Middle East

      Only the US has the leverage to give both Israel and the Palestinians the guarantees they seek

      Montage image of Bill Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat and a map
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      US and Palestinian officials in Riyadh for talks on Saudi-Israel deal

      Negotiations come ahead of possible meeting between Joe Biden and Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman at G20 summit

      Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman meeting Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Saudi Arabia in April
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      European Union
      EU condemns Iran’s ‘illegal’ detention of European diplomat

      Swedish citizen Johan Floderus was detained more than a year ago during private visit

      European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Gideon Rachman
      Biden’s misguided pursuit of a Saudi-Israel deal

      A Middle East grand bargain could be a grand illusion

      Illustration of Joe Biden carrying a dove in a cage while walking among giant silver symbols, including crescent moons, David’s star and other stars
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      Syria
      Syrian protesters call for Assad’s removal as economic crisis spirals

      Anti-regime demonstrators in Sweida say they are struggling to feed their families

      Protesters gather in the southern city of Sweida
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