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Middle East and north Africa

  • Rescue workers battle flames engulfing vehicles at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, early on Wednesday.

    Middle East Live
    Middle East crisis live: Trump claims war will end in ‘two or three weeks’; Rubio says US should ‘re-examine’ Nato relationship

    US president says responsibility for reopening strait of Hormuz rests on countries relying on it; secretary of state says Washington must review whether Nato alliance is still serving the US well
  • Storm clouds over Tehran with smoke rising from Shahran oil depot after attacks

    First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: ​How did Russia become the unexpected beneficiary of the Iran war?

    In today’s newsletter: As conflict engulfs Iran, shifting ​global alliances and soaring energy prices are reshaping ​the existing power balances​ that could redefine the next stage of international security
    Newsletter
  • Donald Trump walks outside the White House

    Middle East crisis live
    Emirates says Iranian nationals are not allowed to enter or transit through UAE – as it happened

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  • People ride a motorized rickshaw, or tuk tuk, on a street in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

    American journalist kidnapped in Iraq, officials say

  • Two men sit in an ornate room with the older one posing imperiously

    ‘Get your own oil’: Trump launches tirade against Europe for not joining Iran war

  • Israeli warplanes struck a building in a southern suburb of Beirut after sending an evacuation notice

    Israeli strike destroys building in southern suburb of Beirut – video

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  • Demonstrators raise their hands covered in red paint

    ‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief

  • UK sends more troops to Gulf amid Trump jibes over British military role

  • Israel vows to occupy swathes of southern Lebanon to expand buffer zone

  • The world cannot allow Gaza’s horrors to be replayed in Lebanon

  • Large explosion seen in Isfahan in Iran – video

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  • Pakistan and China propose five-part peace plan for Middle East

  • ‘There’s no safe place here’: Kuwaiti tanker hit by Iranian drone attack in Dubai port

  • Attack on US radar plane at Saudi base raises concern over Iran’s capabilities

  • The US may send thousands of troops to Iran. Have we learned nothing from the past?

    Moustafa Bayoumi

  • Petrol more than $4 a gallon? Don’t blame JD Vance!

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • A plume of smoke rising earlier this month from the port of Jebel Ali after a reported Iranian strike in Dubai

    Middle East crisis live
    Oil set for record monthly gain – as it happened

  • Itamar Ben-Gvir wearing noose-shaped pin on the lapel of his suit at the Knesset.

    Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks

  • Kharg Island

    Trump threatens to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s energy grid if ceasefire not reached ‘shortly’

  • US president Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport on 29 March 2026.

    The Guardian view on Trump’s Iran war: escalation without end

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