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  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Biden and Netanyahu speak as Israel plans Iran retaliation

    US has been pushing its ally to avoid attacking nuclear facilities and oil infrastructure

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    FT Edit
    Just how rich are Arab rulers?

    Les gros fromages

  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Visual story
    Inside one family’s year-long mission to survive the Israel-Hamas war

    More than 2mn people live in Gaza. Now almost all of them are seeking refuge

    A composite image of Ramy’s family from before the war on top of a map of a refugee camp in Gaza
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel cancels defence minister’s visit to US

    Gallant’s delayed trip raises concern it could affect co-operation with Washington over response to Iran’s missile strike

    Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Thames Water
    Abu Dhabi writes off 9.9% stake in Thames Water

    Writedown comes as UK government is hoping to attract institutional investors

    Maintenance engineers worker at a Thames Water incident site in London
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel sends thousands more troops into Lebanon

    IDF signals an expanded ground offensive against Hizbollah

    Israeli forces on the ground inside Southern Lebanon
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Israeli invasion brings fresh violence to hills of southern Lebanon

    Escalation in Israel’s campaign against Hizbollah adds to history of displacement and occupation

    Internally displaced people ride on a pick up truck in Beirut
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Chris Miller
    Exploding pagers and spy chips: the rising risk of hardware tampering

    Unreliable suppliers can modify devices, yet companies devote few resources to verifying the origin of components

    The remains of exploded pagers
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Oil
    Oil surges above $80 as conflict and storm spark supply fears

    Hedge funds reverse short positions as market has surged nearly 20% from year-to-date low in the last month

    OIl barrels stacked on top of each other
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Iran dismisses speculation about fate of absent Quds Force commander

    Esmail Ghaani’s deputy insists he is ‘alive and well’ despite not being seen in public for more than a week

    Esmail Ghaani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Militants bombard Israel as country marks anniversary of Hamas attack

    Missiles and rockets fired from Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen as conflict threatens to engulf entire region

    A man embraces a woman as they attend a memorial gathering for victims of Hamas’s attack on the Nova music festival. Photos of the victims are displayed in the background
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    The false promise of regime change in Iran

    Military intervention is not the way to bring about the fall of the Islamic republic

    James Ferguson illustration of Netanyahu trying to topple a Supreme Leader statue.
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    The year that changed Israel

    International criticism of the Gaza war has led many Israelis to retreat inwards. Feeling abandoned, they have backed the government’s military campaigns

    A memorial in Jerusalem for the victims of the October 7 attack and soldiers killed in subsequent fighting in Gaza
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Israel marks one year after October 7

    International criticism of the Gaza war has left many Israelis retreating inwards

  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Ireland slams Israel’s ‘outrageous’ demands to its peacekeepers

    Irish president rejects Israeli calls for UN battalion to withdraw from southern Lebanon

    A UN armoured personnel carrier
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel pounds Lebanon with heaviest night of bombing

    Beirut hit overnight with intense wave of air strikes against Hizbollah including targets near airport

    Smoke rising from a fire caused by an explosion after an Israeli air strike on the Choueifat district in Beirut, Lebanon on October 6 2024
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Simona Steinbrecher
    One year on, my daughter is still Hamas’s hostage

    We must unite as a global community with a singular objective — release the hostages and agree to a ceasefire deal

    Doron Steinbrecher (left) with her mother Simona (center) and her sister Yamit Ashkenazi (right)
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi tycoon plans comeback with world’s tallest tower

    Long-stalled project among a flurry of glitzy real estate deals designed to attract investors and tourists

    Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and others look at model of Jeddah Tower ahead of a press conference in 2017
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Lebanon says 50 medics killed in past three days as Israel extends its bombardment

    Hospital in southern Lebanon hit by a strike shortly after warning to evacuate

    A child shelters in a tent near a Beirut beach
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Profiteers take over Gaza food trade as UN aid falters

    War has led to private traders navigating black market and hiring armed guards to bring goods into strip

    A masked member of the Popular Committees of Protection controls traffic in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    US strikes Houthi targets in Yemen as fears grow of wider Mideast war

    Joe Biden defends Israel’s right to defend itself as it escalates offensive against Hizbollah in Lebanon

    Houthi supporters hold posters depicting Hizbollah’s late leader Hassan Nasrallah and wave the flags of the group during a protest in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people in Sana’a, Yemen on October 4, 2024
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Oil prices log biggest weekly rise in almost 2 years as Middle East tensions mount

    Brent crude up almost 10% amid speculation of Israeli or Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure

    An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboat sails along the Persian Gulf
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Netanyahu is ‘running rings’ around Biden

    The US president had hoped to disentangle from the Middle East. But the turbulence in the region could influence the election and define his legacy

    Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Washington and ruined buildings
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A year of war in the Middle East

    Hamas attack on Israel was horrific, but the response has inflamed the region

    A Palestinian woman reacts in front of a destroyed building in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza Strip
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Lawrence Freedman
    The retaliatory cycle has Iran and Israel firmly in its grip

    Speculation about targets is growing as the region grapples with what comes next

    Smoke rises as a result of an Israeli airstrike on the village of Khiam near the border with Israel in southern Lebanon
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