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  • Eslam shows her two-year-old son, Khalid, photos of his father, Shadi.

    Life in a Gaza field hospital – in pictures

    Over the past three months Kieran Seager photographed and interviewed staff, patients, and their families at the UK-Med field hospital in al-Mawasi, Rafah. Approximately 40% of all patients treated at the field hospital are children or young people under 18
  • Smoke rises from an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip

    Israeli strikes kill at least 12 Palestinians in Gaza on New Year’s Day

  • two women smiling next to black and green board

    Halal tech: how Muslim-friendly websites and apps blossomed in 2024

  • An Iranian girl holds a portrait of Qassem Suleimani

    Trump’s killing of Qassem Suleimani led to fall of Assad, says Tugendhat

  • A child writes 2025 in the sand

    Opinion
    In Gaza we were the happiest family I could imagine. Then came the worst days of my life

    Fadwa al-Masry
  • Explosions and plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the Yemeni city of Sana'a

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    Explosions seen in Sana’a as US carries out strikes across Yemen – video

  • Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza

    Israel’s hospital attacks have put Gaza healthcare on brink of collapse, says UN

  • A Syrian fighter with an Islamic State patch on their uniform during a parade in Damascus on 27 December.

    Middle East crisis live
    France carried out bombing raid on Islamic State targets in Syria, defence minister says – as it happened

  • Defence minister Sebastien Lecornu announced the strikes while on a New Year visit to French UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.

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    France bombs Islamic State targets in Syria – video

  • Tony Blair, left, with George W Bush in 2004

    Advisers urged Tony Blair to rein in George W Bush over Iraq war ‘mission from God’

  • Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN, Danny Danon,​ speaks during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at UN headquarters in New York

    Israel sets out case to UN security council for full assault on Yemen’s Houthis

  • UN staff in combat gear talk to a man in a t-shirt in a hospital

    Gaza hospital director being held at notorious Israeli prison, say family

  • man wearing white button-down writes in notebook at table

    From Panama to Palestine, Jimmy Carter refused to let his moral voice be silenced

  • Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025

  • Carter’s book on Israeli ‘apartheid’ was called antisemitic – but was it prescient?

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘It’s not our job to make photos that are easy to look at’: the female photographers exposing the cost of conflict in 2024

  • First Edition newsletter
    Monday briefing: Law, order and what the future might hold for Palestine

  • Control, censorship and ‘penalties’: inside the Assad regime’s propaganda arm

  • Palestinians fill containers with clean water, surrounded by damaged buildings and rubble.

    Israel orders remaining residents of Beit Hanoun to leave

  • Cecilia Sala in a white T-shirt

    Italian journalist’s arrest in Iran alleged to be reprisal for detention of suspected arms dealer

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