Benjamin Netanyahu

The country’s highest authority was considered by a large part of the population to be a dictator who never doubted in giving the order to shoot whenever they took to the streets demanding greater freedoms

Although weakened, pro-Iranian armed groups can destabilize the Middle East by attacking US bases, targeting their regional allies, and disrupting maritime oil shipments

Following bombings in several cities of the Islamic Republic, US bases in Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain were hit

The US president confirmed the start of ‘major combat operations’ and said that he will not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran

The US and Israel have launched a major combat operation in Tehran and other parts of the country

Trump announces the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and encourages Iranians to seize power once the operation is over, which has caused at least 200 deaths, according to the Red Crescent. Tehran responds with bombings against Israel and US bases in the Middle East

Palestinian Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary, denounces a recent settler attack on his family and laments the bleak outlook for the West Bank

With an eye on the October elections, Netanyahu’s government is approving measures that deepen Israel’s de facto annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory, transferring prerogatives from military to civilian hands

The Israeli prime minister is traveling to DC again to ensure that the talks include not just the nuclear program, but making Tehran limit its ballistic missiles and stop supporting militias in the Middle East

According to various accounts, it was Estée Lauder’s son who first planted the idea in the US president’s head

Around 100,000 people escaped the offensive through the Rafah border crossing in the first seven months of the war. Israel only allowed 12 of them to return when it reopened

Netanyahu aims to topple the ayatollahs’ regime, but military assessments warn of the risks of an airstrike

The Israeli prime minister is using his position of strength to implement the truce with a different approach than initially planned, with Trump’s approval

The elite chess player, who has been a Spanish citizen since refusing to wear a headscarf at the 2022 World Rapid Chess Championship, maintains that any solution is good if it stops the massacre of civilians and brings about regime change

Life has barely improved for Palestinians in the Strip in the almost four months since the ceasefire came into effect

Jared Kushner announced a project to rebuild the Strip with tourist skyscrapers by the sea, even as Israeli strikes continue and Palestinian children die from hypothermia

The project to rebuild and run the Gaza Strip gives broad powers to the US president but Israel objects to the composition of the new body

Nostalgia for the shah’s authoritarian monarchy has grown in the shadow of an opposition without clear leaders, but it offers no alternative and enjoys no real support in Iran, according to experts

Benjamin Netanyahu has angered many by establishing relations with the breakaway region of Somalia in a move that could reshape the Horn of Africa and the Middle East

US support for its ally has triggered a schism on the far right and a bitter debate around figures such as Tucker Carlson, the limits of free speech, and antisemitism

The UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories has become a leading voice in her country, but she is on a US blacklist as if she were a terrorist and can only use cash

A toxic mix of 61 million tons of debris, 100,000 tons of explosives, and chemicals leaked into the earth has destroyed arable land, water and air quality. Any recovery is expected to take decades

Al Jazeera’s English-language correspondent left Gaza with her children after being threatened. Now she continues to report on the war as a refugee and asks that Gaza’s plight not be forgotten