#Oriente Médio

Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, where the agreement was signed, in a photograph from September 2024.

Turkey and Qatar sign mutual defence agreement in Istanbul, pledging a joint stance against attack

Destruction on al-Seqaly Street in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, in June 2024.

Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital kills six in Khan Younis, among them surgeon Rizk Abu Shaira

Gadi Eisenkot in November 2022, when he was a member of the Knesset. A former chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, he now leads the Yashar party.

Eisenkot gets 67 recommendations to Netanyahu's 46, and Herzog names on Sunday who will try to form Israel's government

The UN flag on the facade of the Palais Wilson in Geneva, home of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in 2020.

UN staff member dies in Houthi custody in Yemen, and rights chief demands an independent investigation

The front of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, in 2022.

Israeli elections

Israel votes on Tuesday for all 120 Knesset seats, and the polls give neither bloc a majority

Northern Tehran seen from the top of the Milad Tower in April 2019. The Iranian capital receives the three delegations on Monday.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey send their defence and intelligence chiefs to Tehran for security talks

King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, in 2012.

Houthi attacks kill four in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province and push Brent above $110

The Strait of Hormuz seen by NASA's Terra satellite in December 2020: Iran to the north, the Musandam Peninsula to the south, and a 34-km channel at its narrowest point.

Strait of Hormuz

Iran says a tanker carrying 2 million barrels caught fire after striking a mine in Hormuz, and declares the strait closed

Official portrait of Kaja Kallas, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, taken in November 2024.

EU sets up a support mission in Lebanon with a three-year mandate, 80 days before UNIFIL ends

The interior of Terminal 3 at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, in a 2008 photograph. The complex housing terminals 3 and 4 was hit in the attacks of 10 and 11 October 2026.

Riyadh airport stays shut for a third day as 46% of Saudi flights are cancelled

Norwegian and US coalition troops during medical evacuation training at Al Asad air base in western Iraq in December 2024.

US-led coalition leaves Erbil air base, ending 23 years of foreign military presence in Iraq

King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in 2025. Residents reported smoke over the terminal's fuel tank area at dawn on Saturday.

Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted Houthi missile fired at Riyadh

A Tomahawk missile launches from the destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur during a naval exercise in the Pacific in 2019. The UN report examines strikes by missiles of this type on targets in Iran in February 2026.

UN mission finds grounds to believe the US committed a war crime in Iran school strike