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A recent photo from  the Saudi Royal Palace  shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (32) at a meeting with a Yemeni delegation in Jeddah. File photograph: Bandar Al-Jaloud/AFP/Getty Images Saudi Arabia arrests 30 over issues of loyalty to de facto ruler
  • Michael Jansen
  • September 19, 2017, 18:14

Crown prince Mohamed bin Salman highly sensitive to dissent as his policies are failing

Masked youth cadets of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, hold Kalashnikov assault rifles at a march in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis on September 15th, 2017. Photograph: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images Hamas to dissolve Gaza government for PA to take over
  • Mark Weiss
  • September 17, 2017, 20:09

Announcement follows talks in Cairo between Hamas, Egypt and Fatah delegations

Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a bomb attack at a police checkpoint on a highway near the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya, Iraq. Photograph: Essam Al-Sudani/Reuters Isis claims Iraq suicide attacks in which at least 50 killed
  • September 14, 2017, 19:05

Three attacks in south on police checkpoint and restaurants leave dozens injured

  UN special envoy  for Syria Staffan de Mistura: hopes progress can be achieved in talks between the Syrian government and militants  in Geneva after ceasefires have been agreed in Kazakhstan. Photograph: Martial Trezzini/EPA Syrian ceasefire talks begin again as Isis loses territory
  • Michael Jansen
  • September 13, 2017, 17:49

Negotiators hope to extend ‘deconfliction’ zones during sixth conference in Kazakhstan

Nassar, a taxi driver who has been sober for three years, serves tea at an Alcoholics Anonymous association meeting in Tehran on  August  27th. Photograph: Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times Decades after alcohol ban, Iran admits it has a problem
  • Thomas Erdbrink
  • September 12, 2017, 11:00

Opening of addiction centres reflects effort to insert realism into country’s strict ideology

Security and medical sources said the attack took place near Arish, the capital of North Sinai province. Image: Google Maps Sinai blast kills at least 18 Egyptian policemen
  • September 11, 2017, 16:38

Islamic State claims attack on security convoy near Arish in which three others injured

Sara Netanyahu,  wife of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu: faces a possible five-year prison term if found guilty of the fraud charges but a fine is the most likely outcome. Photograph: Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images Binyamin Netanyahu’s wife faces charges of misusing public funds
  • Mark Weiss
  • September 8, 2017, 15:08

Sara Netanyahu suspected of using €85,000 in state funds for private expenses

Israeli soldiers manoeuvre a tank during a military exercise in the northern part of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on Thursday. An Israeli army spokeswoman declined to discuss reports of a strike in Syria. Photograph:  Jalaa Marey/AFP/Getty Images Israel hits Syria target reportedly linked to chemical weapons
  • Mark Weiss
  • September 7, 2017, 16:23

Syrian army warns of ‘repercussions’ as two soldiers killed in strike on military site

Syrians walk in the street in Deir al-Zor after Syria’s army broke a years-long Islamic State siege on the government enclave. Photograph: Stringer/AFP/Getty Images Syrian army breaks 28-month Isis siege on Deir al-Zor city
  • Michael Jansen
  • September 6, 2017, 21:54

Bashar al-Assad praises troops amid continued push to drive Islamic State from the city

A convoy of Islamic State fighters and their families begin to depart from the Lebanon-Syria border zone in Qalamoun, Syria on Monday. Photograph: Omar Sanadiki/Reuters Islamic State convoy stranded in Syria after surrendering
  • September 2, 2017, 14:50

Hezbollah and Syrian army seeking path for fighters and civilians as US tries to block route

Al-Ayadieh village, the last remaining active front line near Tal Afar, during an operation to retake the city from Islamic State. Photograph: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images A complex web of conflicting agendas in the fight against Isis
  • Michael Jansen
  • September 1, 2017, 20:25

Confusion and uncertainty reign as political, ethnic and hidden agendas play out

US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley: travelled to the IAEA headquarters last week to press the agency to be more aggressive in its inspections regime, and to focus on Iran’s military sites. Photograph: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images Iran sticking to nuclear deal, says UN, contradicting Trump
  • Julian Borger
  • September 1, 2017, 10:01

Nuclear watchdog’s report comes as US president threatens to withdraw from agreement

A paramilitary police officer carries the body of Alan Kurdi (3)  after a number of migrants died when the boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized near the Turkish resort of Bodrum on September 2nd, 2005. Photograph:  AP Photo 8,500 people lost in Mediterranean since death of Alan Kurdi
  • Saeed Kamali Dehghan
  • September 1, 2017, 09:14

Figures show perilous journeys continue on anniversary of three-year-old’s death

Muslims praying at the Grand Mosque ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday. Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters Two million Muslim pilgrims descend on Mecca for hajj
  • Michael Jansen
  • August 30, 2017, 09:32

World’s most multicultural religious event gets under way in Saudi Arabia

Fighters backing the Iraqi forces pose with the Iraqi flag from Tal Afar’s Ottoman-era historic citadel on Sunday. Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubayeahmad/Getty Iraqi forces retake ‘almost all’ of Tal Afar from Islamic State
  • August 27, 2017, 20:21

Tal Afar is the latest objective in war against Isis following July’s recapture of Mosul

A Hezbollah fighter carries the Hezbollah (top) and Lebanese flags in the Jaroud Arsal area of Lebanon, near the Syrian border in July. File photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times Ceasefire halts Syria-Lebanon border fight against Islamic State
  • August 27, 2017, 20:13

Lebanese soldiers in Isis captivity since 2014 are almost certainly dead – senior security official

Fighters of the Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization units) flash the victory sign  in  Tal Afar, west of Mosul,  August 26th, 2017. Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images Iraq says about to take full control of Tal Afar from Islamic State
  • August 26, 2017, 18:59

Elite forces retake centre of city ‘and raise national flag on top of the citadel building’

Saudi’s defence minister Mohammed bin Salman attending a military parade by Saudi security forces ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca. Photograph:  Bandar Al-Jaloud/AFP/Getty Images Iran-Saudi Arabia rift narrows amid shifting alliances in region
  • Michael Jansen
  • August 25, 2017, 21:32

Some 86,000 Iranian pilgrims to attend annual Hajj for the first time in two years

People carry the body of a woman they recovered from under the rubble of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike in Sana’a, Yemen on Friday. Photograph:  Khaled Abdullah/Reuters At least 14 civilians killed in Yemen air strikes
  • August 25, 2017, 12:06

Women and children among dead as Saudi-led coalition strike hits houses in Sana’a

Christopher Cantwell, in the Vice News documentary about the riots in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photograph: Vice News screengrab White nationalist Christopher Cantwell surrenders to police
  • August 24, 2017, 13:06

Man gained notoriety for behaviour in ‘Vice’ documentary about Charlottesville violence

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