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An Israeli strike rises over Gaza City. Photograph: Hatem Moussa/File/AP Photo

Israel rejects Hague court’s authority to investigate alleged war crimes

Mark Weiss
April 9, 2021, 17:56

Israel’s biggest fear is that hundreds of soldiers may be issued with arrest warrants

Palestinian refugees play outside their family’s house in al-Shatea refugee camp in Gaza City. Photograph: Epa/Mohammed Saber

Biden restores $250m in aid to Palestine cut under Trump administration

Michael Jansen
April 8, 2021, 20:08

Humanitarian aid signals re-engagement but at a fraction of previous levels of funding

Iran’s governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Kazem Gharib Abadi, leavings a meeting in Vienna, Austria. Photograph: EPA/Christian Bruna

Talks in Vienna on restoring 2015 Iranian nuclear deal said to be constructive

Michael Jansen
April 7, 2021, 18:12

Working groups to identify limitations on Iran’s nuclear programme and sanctions that US must lift

Image from November 28th, 2006, of Prince Hamzah Bin al-Hussein (R) and Prince Hashem Bin al-Hussein, half-brothers of King Abdullah II of Jordan, at the opening of the parliament in Amman. File photograph: AP Photo/Mohammad abu Ghosh

Jordanian prince’s whereabouts remain unknown amid royal rift

Patrick Kingsley and Rana F Sweis
April 6, 2021, 19:09

Employees and associates of Prince Hamzah are still being held following plot claims

Binyamin Netanyahu has been invited by Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, to try to form a government after the country’s fourth inconclusive election in two years. Photograph: Abir Sultan/AFP via Getty Images

Netanyahu given 28 days to form new Israeli government

Mark Weiss
April 6, 2021, 16:58

Prime minister faces uphill task in putting together coalition after inconclusive election

Austrian police officers stand guard near the entrance of the Grand Hotel in Vienna where diplomats of the EU, China, Russia and Iran will hold talks. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty

Iran and US begin indirect talks to revive nuclear deal

April 6, 2021, 10:32

Talks in Vienna aim to return both countries to full compliance with 2015 nuclear accord

A man cycles past garbage containers set on fire by protesters blocking access to the Lebanese Central Bank in Beirut, Lebanon in March. Photograph: AP Photo/Hussein Malla

Lebanon on the brink: ‘It has never been as bad as now’

Michael Jansen
April 6, 2021, 01:00

Pandemic kills tourism, war in Syria halts trade, while US sanctions pummel banking

Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein raised the suspicions of Jordan’s security forces by taking part in meetings where Herak tribesmen have criticised the king. Photograph: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP via Getty Images

Jordanian authorities risk royal rift with Prince Hamzah’s house arrest

Michael Jansen
April 5, 2021, 20:24

Prince denies taking part in a conspiracy or planning to destabilise the kingdom

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu leaves the courtroom in Jerusalem on Monday. Photograph: Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP via Getty

Netanyahu faces uphill political battle as corruption trial resumes

April 5, 2021, 19:31

Israeli prime minister ‘not close’ to assembling a majority in the 120-seat Knesset

Prince Hamzah bin Hussein said he was being punished for taking part in meetings in which the king had been criticised. File photograph: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP via Getty

Jordan’s former crown prince ‘under house arrest’

April 4, 2021, 07:53

Prince Hamzah says he’s not to blame for the country’s ‘breakdown in governance’

Carriages carrying mummies leave the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Photograph: Getty

Egyptian mummies paraded through Cairo on way to new museum

April 3, 2021, 21:10

Eighteen kings and four queens conveyed to place where they can be displayed in splendour

Marwan Barghouti (L) and Mahmoud Abbas (R) will face off in the forthcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections. Photographs: Sven Nackstrand and Jamal Aruri/AFP via Getty Images

Abbas faces blow to election prospects as rivals confirm challenges

Mark Weiss
April 1, 2021, 18:41

Analysts say Palestinian president may try to cancel or delay votes to avoid defeat

Syrian children watch a puppet show performed by a local theatre group amidst the ruins of buildings destroyed during Syria’s civil war, in al-Fua, in the country’s northwestern Idlib province. Photograph: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty

Syria donations shortfall could cost lives, UN and aid agencies say

Michael Jansen
March 31, 2021, 18:10

EU-sponsored donors’ conference raises $6.4bn rather than the target of $10bn

Syrian women and children wait for departure, as another group of Syrian families is released from the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State group fighters, in northeastern Syria. Photograph: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images

Kurdish forces capture Isis radicals at Syrian detention camp

Michael Jansen
March 29, 2021, 17:25

Both Syrians and foreigners suspected of supporting terror group caught in sweep

Naftali Bennett, leader of the right-wing Yamina party, addresses supporters at his party’s campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, earlier this week. Photograph: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty Images

Israeli parties jostle for position amid inconclusive election results

Mark Weiss
March 26, 2021, 17:39

Both pro- and anti-Netanyahu camps fail to gain majority needed in Knesset

The Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-metre-long and 59-metre wide vessel lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt’s Suez Canal. Photograph: Maxar Technologies/EPA

Experts fear it could take weeks to dislodge huge ship blocking Suez Canal

Michael Jansen
March 26, 2021, 17:10

Egyptian president eager to limit disruptive debacle as flow of goods totally halted

Palestinian president and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas. Photograph: STR/EPA

Fatah and Hamas to fall short of majority in Palestinian elections, poll shows

Michael Jansen
March 25, 2021, 17:14

Parties could be forced into uneasy coalition, with Fatah fractured by two defectors

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu: Bringing his far-right coalition partners on board may be his biggest challenge to date. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

Israel election: Netanyahu needs support of both Islamist and far-right parties

Mark Weiss
March 24, 2021, 17:20

PM faces big test of political skills as fourth election in two years is another cliffhanger

Polling station tent for those exposed to coronavirus, in Ashkelon, Israel: Neither the pro-Netanyahu nor the anti-Netanyahu camps succeeded in clinching a majority in the 120-seat Knesset. Photograph: Amnon Gutman/Bloomberg

Netanyahu’s return to power in hands of Yamina party

Mark Weiss
March 23, 2021, 21:33

Backing of right-wing faction would bolster PM with thin majority to win sixth term

Forces loyal to Yemen’s Houthi rebels prepare to carry the coffins of fellow fighters killed in battles with Saudi-backed government troops in the Marib region on March 23rd. Photograph: Mohammed Huwais / AFP via Getty

Houthi rebels dismiss Saudi ceasefire proposal in Yemen

Michael Jansen
March 23, 2021, 19:01

Houthi spokesman calls for complete lifting of Saudi air and naval blockades

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