Middle East

Latest Updates

  1. A middle-aged man in white shirt is stood in front of a burned-out car in a field of dried out wild grass, with mountains in the distance

  2. Screengrab of Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) video showing paramedic Assad al-Nassasra (C) being greeted by colleagues in Gaza following his release by the Israeli military (29 April 2025)

  3. Firemen try to extinguish fires at Shahid Rajaee port in Bandar Abbas, Iran (28 April 2025)

  4. Ronen Bar (R), head of Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency, attends a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, Jerusalem, on 23 April 2024

  5. Rescuers carry an injured migrant after a strike on a detention centre, in Saada, Yemen (28 April 2025)

  6. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside the International Court of Justice at The Hague (28/04/25)

  7. International Court of Justice hearings

  8. Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs following Israeli strike.

  9. A plume of smoke rises over buildings after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza

  10. Rescue workers walk among the smoke and charred rubble at site of port blast.

  11. Emergency workers standing in front of a large, black cloud of smoke

  12. A fireball seen from the viewpoint of a driver in front of a row of cars

  13. A woman sits on a sofa looking away from the camera, a small lamp behind her.

  14. Displaced Palestinians hold out pans at a community kitchen in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza (24 April 2025)

  15. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing a black suit, and Pope Francis, wearing his white papal garments, shake hands as they meet in Jerusalem in 2014

  16. An exterior image of a white-walled building with a large hole blown into its side, behind a row of trees.

  17. Palestinians inspect the aftermath of an Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City, northern Gaza (24 April 2025)

  18. Composite image showing Palestinians in Gaza standing next to destroyed buildings and asbestos fibres under a microscope

  19. People marching through former Auschwitz death camp

  20. Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg sits in a chair

  21. Members of the public gather to watch British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales leave from Portsmouth Naval Base on the south coast of England, on April 22, 2025, for deployment to the Indo-Pacific region.

  22. A crowd of people line the street in Beit Lahiya, with a man in the centre sitting on another persons shoulders with a raised finger in the air as he shouts, with damaged buildings in the background against a blue sky.

  23. Jordanian police stand outside an office of the Islamic Action Front in Amman, Jordan (23 April 2025)

  24. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he speaks in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank (23 April 2025)