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Middle East and north Africa

  • Hakan Fidan

    UN resolution on international stabilisation force for Gaza could be ready within two weeks

  • crowds of people at a refugee camp

    At least 36,000 Sudanese have fled since fall of El Fasher to RSF, says UN agency

  • Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi

    Israel’s top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse

  • Red Cross vehicles carrying the bodies of three people believed to be deceased hostages handed over by Hamas

    Israel and Hamas hand over bodies as part of Gaza ceasefire deal

  • ‘Olives are everything for us’: West Bank farmers prevented from harvesting by settler violence

  • Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on

    Nesrine Malik
  • The wreckage of a vehicle after an Israeli airstrike in Kfar Reman

    Israel threatens to step up attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon

    Israel’s defence minister accuses Beirut of delaying efforts to disarm militant group a day after deadly Israeli airstrike
  • Mohamed Khamis Douda.

    He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’

    For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are being hunted down
  • Civil defense teams conduct search and recovery operations to retrieve the bodies of Palestinians from the rubble of buildings.

    The grim task of recovering thousands of bodies from the rubble of Gaza

    Relatives and experts tell of the human and societal need to find and identify the dead, while images and data shed light on the scale of the job
  • People crowd around holding bowls in the air

    ‘We don’t feel safe’: after week of bombings, people in Gaza are losing faith in ceasefire

    After initial enthusiasm, people fear ceasefire does not mean end to war but just less frequent, more unpredictable violence
  • Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi

    UN expert urged to investigate Lebanon over alleged torture of Egyptian-Turkish poet

    Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi has been imprisoned in the UAE for almost a year for criticising Emirati, Egyptian and Saudi governments
  • Displaced families boarding a truck

    A Sudanese massacre foretold: the grim familiarity of the RSF’s rampage through El Fasher

    Atrocities unfolding in El Fasher since it fell to paramilitary forces follow a bleak pattern seen in Rwanda, Liberia and Sudan itself, including lack of international action
  • Group of paramilitaries with assault rifles arresting another paramilitary wearing the same combat fatigues

    Sudan’s RSF accused of ‘PR stunt’ after arresting fighters behind civilian killings

  • Two Palestinians walk through the destruction in Khan Younis, Gaza

    Gaza risks sliding into deadly limbo of ‘no war, no peace’, top Qatari diplomat warns

  • Satellite image of the children's hospital in El Fasher.

    Sudan’s brutal civil war – what has happened in El Fasher?

  • Sudanese people standing on dry land among fields

    UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan

  • From the agencies
    Socotra, an island apart from mainland Yemen’s turmoil – in pictures

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  • Egypt’s vast $1bn museum to open in Cairo after two-decade build

  • The Red Cross transports the body of a deceased hostage, after it was handed over by Hamas militants in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, October 30.

    Hamas hands over bodies of two Israeli hostages amid fragile Gaza truce

  • Israeli forces kill a Lebanese municipal employee in a raid in southern Lebanonepa12493239 A woman stands at the site where Lebanese municipal employee Ibrahim Salameh was killed in the village of Blida in southern Lebanon, 30 October 2025. Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported that a Blida municipality employee was killed by Israeli forces during a pre-dawn Israeli raid on 30 October, supported by several military vehicles and ATVs, on the village of Blida, one kilometer inside Lebanese territory. Following the attack, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun issued an order for the armed forces to resist any Israeli incursions in the country's south.  EPA/STRINGER

    Lebanese president orders army to confront Israeli incursions after deadly raid

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