Middle East

Latest Updates

  1. A multi-storey building in the Baschoura neighbourhood in central Beirut was hit by a strike overnight

  2. (Front L to R) Hamas ranking members Khalil Al-Hayya and Rawhi Mushtaha stand outside the VIP hall at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on March 15, 2021 - both men are wearing shirts and leather jackets, and Mushtaha has glasses hanging from his neck.

  3. BBC correspondent Sally Nabil

  4. The phrase 'Securely contacting CIA' written in English, Mandarin, Farsi and Korean.

  5. Smoke rises following an Israeli strike in Kafr Kila, southern Lebanon (2 October 2024)

  6. Explosion over Beirut skyline

  7. A girl dressed in pink sites outside the Al-Zeitoun C school after an Israeli air strike on 21 September

  8. Gust of flame as military ship launches missile interceptor

  9. Biden gestures while speaking to reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on 2 October, with a security official, black SUVs and a reporter with a camera in the background.

  10. file image of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander-in-Chief Major General Hossein Salami

  11. John Healey with troops at RAF Akrotiri in Cyrprus

  12. Nawal Al-Maghafi

  13. Barmouth beach, show beach defences and the sea out a little with small waves washing onto the sand

  14. A view of the damage in the aftermath of Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, October 4, 2024

  15. People check the wreckage of an Iranian ballistic missile outside the city of Arad, southern Israel

  16. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres giving a speech at the United Nations in New York. He is standing against the distinctive green marbled backdrop at a lectern, wearing a red tie, dark suit jacket and blue shirt

  17. Hugo Bachega in Beirut

  18. Amal Zahereddine (right), 18, and her sisters Yasmine, 17, and Layla, 22,

  19. Mourners pray next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, during their funeral, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 2, 2024.

  20. A missle launch viewed from a plane

  21. A Merseyside Police crest

  22. David Nahle

  23. A woman wearing a pink jacket over a dress stands looking at a building that is mainly rubble

  24. A man holds children as people take cover as air raid sirens sound across Israel during an Iranian ballistic missile attack, in central Israel (1 October 2024)