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Middle East & North Africa

  • Thursday, 17 July, 2025
    Syria
    Syria’s president accuses Israel of seeking ‘endless chaos’ as his forces pull back

    Government withdrawal from southern Sweida province follows days of sectarian clashes and Israeli strikes

    Members of Syrian security forces stand on a road in Sweida
  • Thursday, 17 July, 2025
    EU immigration
    Spain overtakes Germany as top EU asylum destination

    Change led by a sharp drop in Syrians seeking protection in the bloc after Bashar al-Assad’s fall from power

    Migrants are on their way from the Austrian-German border to the first registration point of the German federal police near the small Bavarian village Wegscheid, southern Germany
  • Thursday, 17 July, 2025
    Rachman Review podcast29 min listen
    The war in Gaza - what do Israelis want?

    Opinion polls point to a desire for a ceasefire - why is Netanyahu resisting?

  • Wednesday, 16 July, 2025
    Syria
    Israel strikes Syrian military headquarters in Damascus

    Attack follows days of deadly sectarian clashes in southern part of country and marks significant escalation of campaign

    A view of the damage following Israeli strikes on the Syrian army and defence ministry headquarters in Damascus on July 16 2025
  • Wednesday, 16 July, 2025
    Government of Israel
    Netanyahu suffers another blow as second Haredi party quits Israel government

    Shas departs over failure to enshrine ultraorthodox military exemption but says it will not work to topple administration

    Ultraorthodox Jewish men burn conscription orders during a protest last month in Bnei Brak
  • Wednesday, 16 July, 2025
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Iran’s rival factions trade accusations after Israel war

    Recriminations between hardliners and reformists over the republic’s future threaten rare sense of national unity

    Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian
  • Wednesday, 16 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Gaza stampede at GHF aid site kills at least 20

    Deaths follow series of killings by Israeli military near controversial aid group’s centres

    Palestinians carry a covered body at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza on July 16 2025
  • Wednesday, 16 July, 2025
    Behind the Money podcast21 min listen
    Inside BCG’s Gaza work scandal

    Events raise questions about why consulting firms can’t seem to avoid reputational crises.

  • Tuesday, 15 July, 2025
    Syria
    Israel targets Syrian military in renewed cross-border strikes

    Netanyahu says he is protecting Druze minority from sectarian violence

    Syrian security forces in Sweida on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 15 July, 2025
    Government of Israel
    Netanyahu’s government teeters as ultra-Orthodox party quits coalition

    Israeli PM’s parliamentary majority cut over move to end religious exemption from military service

    Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a session of the Knesset on Monday
  • Tuesday, 15 July, 2025
    Europe Express
    EU weighs sanctions on Israel as concerns mount over Gaza aid deal Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Is the EU ban on Russian gas legal?

    Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City on July 14, 2025
  • Monday, 14 July, 2025
    Syria
    Israel launches new round of strikes on Syria after sectarian clashes

    Defence minister Katz calls attack a warning to new government after violence between Bedouin and Druze clans

    Syrian government forces gather on the roadside
  • Monday, 14 July, 2025
    Renewable energy
    Saudi Arabia to boost renewable energy with $8bn investment

    ACWA Power leads consortium that will build five solar and two wind projects in the kingdom

    A solar plant in Saudi Arabia
  • Monday, 14 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’

    A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back

    A man walks with a cardboard box saying ‘GHF’ on his shoulder, while behind him a large number of people search through apparently empty boxes strewn across the ground
  • Monday, 14 July, 2025
    Ruchir Sharma
    The markets are signalling a clear winner in the Middle East

    Israel’s stunning stock rally suggests the country is cementing its status as the regional economic superpower

    The Tel Aviv skyline
  • Sunday, 13 July, 2025
    Boston Consulting Group
    BCG earned more than $1mn for Gaza aid barge project

    Work with private US group Fogbow overlapped with start of separate effort to help Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

  • Friday, 11 July, 2025
    Insurance
    Cargo ship sunk by Houthi militants faces losses after sailing uninsured

    US-based Travelers did not extend war risk cover to Greek-operated bulk carrier Eternity C before fatal Red Sea passage

    The Eternity C sinking in the Red Sea
  • Friday, 11 July, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Trump offers to send more arms to Ukraine via Nato allies

    US president appears to cool on Vladimir Putin and welcomes move for further sanctions against Russia

    US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a meeting at the Nato summit in The Hague
  • Friday, 11 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel and Hamas inch closer to Gaza ceasefire deal

    Negotiators struggle to overcome differences on future role of Israeli forces in Palestinian territory

    Defense secretary Pete Hegseth, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the Pentagon on Wednesday
  • Friday, 11 July, 2025
    Europe Express
    Why Kallas’s aid deal is a major victory for Gaza and the EU Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Denmark’s plan to drive up climate investments

    EU chief diplomat Kaja Kallas, left, and Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar
  • Friday, 11 July, 2025
    Houthi movement
    Houthi attacks halt ships’ Red Sea return

    Fresh attacks signal resurgent campaign by Yemeni rebel group, say analysts

    aerial view of explosions on the Liberia-flagged bulk carrier Magic Seas
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Boston Consulting Group
    Two top BCG executives stripped of leadership roles over Gaza project

    Consulting group’s chief risk officer and head of social impact practice lose their titles

    BCG logo
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Houthi movement
    US accuses Houthis of ‘kidnapping’ crew members from sunk vessel

    Yemeni rebels have scaled up assaults on commercial shipping this week

    A handout from the Houthis’ media centre reportedly shows the bulk carrier Eternity C after it was attacked by the Yemeni rebels
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Boston Consulting Group
    World Food Programme reviews partnership with BCG over Gaza work

    UN agency expresses ‘shock and grave concerns’ about consultancy’s involvement with controversial aid scheme

    Palestinian children gather at a meal distribution point in central Gaza
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    EU strikes deal with Israel to increase aid to Gaza

    Influx of food and other essentials will be co-ordinated via UN rather than controversial new aid scheme, says EU official

    A truck carrying humanitarian aid
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