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Protestors setting fire to the Saudi Arabia embassy in Tehran, Iran, on January 2nd, 2016. The incident led Qatar to follow Saudi Arabia’s lead in cutting ties with the Islamic republic. Photograph: Mohammad Reza  Nadimi/EPA Qatar restores diplomatic ties with Iran amid regional row
  • August 24, 2017, 13:00

Move set to increase tensions in region after four countries severed ties with Doha

Smoke rises after an air strike during fighting between members of the Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State militants in Raqqa, Syria, on August 20th. Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters ‘Hundreds of civilians’ killed in US-led drive to oust Isis from Raqqa
  • August 24, 2017, 11:39

Amnesty says residents under fire from all sides and urges end to indiscriminate attacks

A malnourished child, Marwan Ahmad Mahyoub (10), sits at a special care centre where he receives rehabilitation exercises in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen, on August 19th. Photograph: Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters ‘It’s a slow death’: The world’s worst humanitarian crisis
  • August 24, 2017, 09:55

Yemen endures mounting destruction and death as war drags on with no end in sight

Iraqi armoured units are seen heading for the town of Tal Afar, the main remaining Islamic State stronghold in the northern part of the country. Photograph: AFP Iraqi forces advance on Isis-held city of Tal Afar
  • August 20, 2017, 08:19

Military leaders confident of recapturing one of last remaining Islamic State strongholds

A veiled woman sits  on a bench near an installation of wedding dresses by Lebanese artist Mireille Honein and Abaad activist organisation  at Beirut’s corniche in April. The installation was a criticism of Lebanon’s law allowing rapists who married their victims to go free. Photograph:   Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images Lebanon repeals controversial ‘marry the rapist’ law
  • Michael Jansen
  • August 17, 2017, 14:40

‘Overdue’ move welcomed to scrap 1940s law allowing rapists avoid prosecution through marriage

Hassan Rouhani’s remarks are thought likely to be an attempt to appease hardliners at home who have demanded a tougher stand against the US. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA Iran says it may be forced to restart nuclear programme
  • August 15, 2017, 18:47

Hassan Rouhani says Iran could pull out of nuclear deal if US continues ‘threats’

File image of Iran’s newly-upgraded Sayyad-3 air defence missiles. File photograph: Iranian defence ministry/AFP/Getty Images Iran advances plan to boost missile programme
  • August 13, 2017, 17:23

Iranian parliament gives approval for rise in defence spending following new US sanctions

 File image of Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal  at his home in  Haifa, Israel. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA World’s oldest man dies at the age of 113
  • August 12, 2017, 20:42

Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal passed away in Israel on Friday, reports claim

Soldiers at  the scene of a major train crash just outside Egypt’s Mediterranean port city of Alexandria on Friday. Photograph: Ravy Shaker/AP Photo At least 40 people killed after train crash in Egypt
  • August 11, 2017, 21:35

Railways authority says train to Alexandria hit back of another at small station

Remains of a car and buildings are seen following a security campaign against Shi’ite Muslim gunmen in the town of Awamiya, in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Faisal Al Nasser/Reuters Saudi Arabia ends military attacks on gunmen
  • Michael Jansen
  • August 10, 2017, 20:46

Fears for heritage of 400-year-old Shia town Awamiya after destruction and violence

International Organization for Migration staff assisting Somali and Ethiopian migrants, who were reportedly forced into the sea by smugglers, on a beach in Shabwa, Yemen. Photograph: EPA/UN Migration Agency (IOM) 2017 Another 55 migrants feared drowned off Yemen
  • August 10, 2017, 17:15

UN migration body claims five bodies found after second such incident in two days

Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech after being sworn in before parliament in Tehran, on August 5th. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images Iranian president appoints two women vice-presidents
  • August 9, 2017, 15:44

Rouhani had no woman ministers in first term and chose predominantly male cabinet

Elor Azaria (centre) talks to the media next to  family members as he arrives at the Tzrifin military prison in the city of Ramla, Israel, on Wednesday. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA Israeli soldier begins prison term amid clamour for clemency
  • Mark Weiss
  • August 9, 2017, 12:23

Case of Elor Azaria, who shot dead a wounded Palestinian attacker, has divided country

Carla del Ponte, who has resigned from the UN commission investigating war crimes and violence against civilians in Syria. Photograph: Martial Trezzini/Keystone/ AP UN prosecutor resigns over inaction on Syria’s war crimes
  • Michael Jansen
  • August 8, 2017, 21:58

Carla del Ponte blames lack of backing from Security Council to try perpetrators

An Afghan police officer inspects vehicles at a checkpoint in Kabul on August 6th: up to 50 thought to be killed in Sar-e Pul. Photograph: Mohammad Ismail Attackers kill dozens of Afghan villagers in northern province
  • August 6, 2017, 19:58

Fighters believed to have attacked security outpost in Sayaad, torching 30 houses

Employees of al-Jazeera satellite channel at their Jerusalem bureau: the Foreign Press Association in Israel has criticised Israel’s move to shut it down. Photograph: Atef  Safadi Israel moves to shut down local operations of al-Jazeera
  • August 6, 2017, 19:31

‘We have identified media outlets that endanger the security of Israel’s citizens’

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu: suspected of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in two separate corruption investigations. Photograph: Amir Cohen/AFP/Getty Zionist Union urges election as Netanyahu suspected of bribery
  • Mark Weiss
  • August 4, 2017, 18:22

Ari Harow, Israel PM’s former chief of staff, signs state’s witness deal for two cases

Flames shoot up the sides of the Torch tower residential building in the Marina district, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Photograph:  Mitch Williams/Reuters Flames engulf 86-storey residential tower in Dubai
  • August 4, 2017, 06:55

Authorities say they have evacuated the Torch Tower in the Marina

 A cholera-infected child receives treatment at a makeshift tent at a hospital in  Yemen. Photograph: EPA/Yahya Arhab ‘One million children’ at risk of cholera death in Yemen
  • Michael Jansen
  • August 3, 2017, 20:03

Infection rate continues to rise as deliveries of medical supplies restricted

Syrian refugees arrive in Wadi Hamayyed, on the outskirts of Lebanon’s northeastern border town of Arsal, to board buses bound for the northwestern Syrian town of Idlib on Wednesday, August 2nd. Photograph: Stringer/AFP/Getty Evacuation of al-Qaeda-linked fighters from Lebanon to Syria goes ahead
  • Michael Jansen
  • August 2, 2017, 20:09

Transport of 8,000 refugees resumes after Jabhat Fatah al-Sham demands met by Hizbullah

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