Latest news — Middle East in English — The Guardian 235 results
Showing only The Guardian × clear

Mid-air panic as pilot attacked on Israel-bound flight - podcast

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishOct 1, 2026👁 6♥ 0💬 0

A commercial flight travelling from Dubai to Israel was forced to make an emergency landing after an apparent brawl between its pilots. The flight was in Jordanian airspace when i…

Send us your questions about how the Iran war will affect US voters in the midterms

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 30, 2026👁 8♥ 0💬 0

Our politics and foreign policy reporters will answer your questions live in a Q&A on Tuesday 6 OctoberThe war with Iran has had major implications for Americans’ wallets, gov…

Mid-air panic as pilot attacked on Israel-bound flight - The Latest

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 30, 2026👁 7♥ 0💬 0

A commercial flight travelling from Dubai to Israel was forced to make an emergency landing after an apparent brawl between its pilots. The flight was in Jordanian airspace when i…

‘Whoever is hearing me, we need help’: how flight 1073 survived its 5,000-metre plunge

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 30, 2026👁 8♥ 0💬 0

On morning service from Dubai to Tel Aviv, 150 passengers witnessed a horrific cockpit assault, flight plummet and daring rescuePilot who stabbed co-pilot on Israel-bound plane ma…

Mid-air panic as pilot attacked on Israel-bound flight - The Latest

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 30, 2026👁 9♥ 0💬 0

A commercial flight travelling from Dubai to Israel was forced to make an emergency landing after an apparent brawl between its pilots. The flight was in Jordanian airspace when i…

Pentagon says it has formally completed withdrawal of US troops from Iraq

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 30, 2026👁 7♥ 0💬 0

Announcement comes two years after withdrawal was agreed to and 12 years since US mission to fight IS began The Pentagon announced on Wednesday that it has formally completed its …

Mother of passenger on Israel-bound flight describes incident – video

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 30, 2026👁 6♥ 0💬 0

The mother of a passenger onboard a flydubai flight from Dubai to Israel said her daughter told her the plane lost control before other pilots took over and the aircraft landed in…

‘Terrorist attack’ by Israeli settlers on Palestinian family in West Bank condemned

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 30, 2026👁 4♥ 0💬 0

Settler violence in West Bank makes everyday life ‘untenable’ for Palestinians, says ICRC after assault on family trying to return home in JaludThe ICRC has warned that Israeli se…

Israeli minister claims ‘terrorist’ wanted to crash plane after Israel-bound flight’s emergency landing – latest

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 30, 2026👁 8♥ 0💬 0

Israeli media say incident, which raised fears of possible hijacking, stemmed from feud between plane’s two pilotsFull report: Israel-bound passenger plane makes emergency landing…

Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 30, 2026👁 7♥ 0💬 0

Iranian court upholds sentence against 29-year-old star Parastoo Ahmadi and other musicians in crackdown on women flouting hijab lawAn Iranian court’s decision to uphold a sentenc…

Cotton Queen review – mystery, matriarchs and magic in pioneering Sudanese debut

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 30, 2026👁 9♥ 0💬 0

Suzannah Mirghani’s first feature contains a powerful performance by Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud as a village’s elder woman and tackles the long shadow of British imperialism and women’…

The Guardian view on Morocco’s election: hosting a World Cup will not placate a disillusioned generation | Editorial

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 29, 2026👁 9♥ 0💬 0

A year after mass protests demanding a change in political priorities, gen Z opted out of last week’s poll en masseThe spectacle of young migrants swimming en masse from Moroccan …

Saudi Arabia urged to reconcile with UAE to drive back Houthi separatists in Yemen

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 29, 2026👁 7♥ 0💬 0

Relations between the two countries soured in January when a UAE-backed force was defeated by Saudi Arabia in YemenSaudi Arabia is being urged to reconcile with the United Arab Em…

Questions remain over Iran’s link to alleged RAF Fairford bomb plot

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 28, 2026👁 6♥ 0💬 0

Tehran has been trying to step up attacks on targets in the west but its track record has been mixedInvestigators may be some way from determining exactly what led five men with t…

Netanyahu is using Mamdani as a foil in his re-election campaign | Mohamad Bazzi

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 28, 2026👁 4♥ 0💬 0

The Israeli prime minister’s remarks at the UN weren’t just motivated by personal animosityIn a boastful and defiant speech to the United Nations on Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu c…

Israel does not have right to close UK consulate in Jerusalem, Foreign Office advised

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 28, 2026👁 11♥ 0💬 0

Former attorney general Dominic Grieve says Israel is not entitled to shut mission in occupied Palestinian territoryUK politics live – latest updatesIsrael does not have a legal r…

Price of diesel on UK forecourts reaches all-time high

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 28, 2026👁 8♥ 0💬 0

Fallout from Iran conflict continues to drive up bill for motorists with record average cost now at 199.18p a litreBusiness live – latest updatesThe price of diesel on UK forecour…

Children forced to give up school for work as fighting upends daily life in Yemen

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 28, 2026👁 10♥ 0💬 0

Renewed fighting between Iran-aligned Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni forces has shattered four years of relative calmIn the mornings, 13-year-old Muneer Farie went to school, and…

Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 28, 2026👁 7♥ 0💬 0

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’Ed Miliband will tell campaigners and party members who raised the plight…

UN ambassador Waltz says Iran was not negotiating ‘in good faith’ to end war

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 27, 2026👁 7♥ 0💬 0

Waltz says Trump rejected Iran’s proposal to end war because they ‘were asking for everything up front’The Trump administration’s ambassador to the United Nations said the US reje…

61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 27, 2026👁 8♥ 0💬 0

Removal of war debris, in which lives, memories and unexploded Israeli bombs lie buried, is one of largest clearance operations in modern historyIt took all day to clear a section…

UN adds 61 companies to settlements blacklist over alleged Palestinian human rights violations

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 26, 2026👁 9♥ 0💬 0

Human rights council names and shames businesses with ties to illegal Israeli settlements in West BankThe UN human rights office has added 61 more companies to a blacklist of firm…

We followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell us

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 26, 2026👁 6♥ 0💬 0

Behind the stories of bombings and mass deaths, the everyday challenges facing Palestinians living under siege portray a quieter tragedy we rarely hear What does it take to make a…

Trump reportedly rejects Iran’s seven-day peace deal to reopen strait of Hormuz

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 26, 2026👁 8♥ 0💬 0

Tehran awaits official response to plan, but US president is said to expect renewed strikes after midtermsIran is ⁠awaiting an official US response to its proposal to reopen the s…

Gaza: a week in the life of five ordinary Palestinians

📡 The GuardianMiddle East in EnglishSep 26, 2026👁 8♥ 0💬 0

As the war pushes deep into its third year, what does daily life look like for people living there and how has the conflict changed it?***We follow five ordinary people – a 12-yea…