War on Iran

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Iran war live: Hormuz tensions simmer as Israel escalates attacks in Lebanon
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Israeli settlers force Palestinian family to exhume father’s body in West Bank
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Latmiya: Inside the Ashura rituals shaping Iran’s wartime narrative
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Opinion

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UK local elections: How the media used antisemitism against the Greens’ Jewish leader
Joe Gill
War on Iran
Why has the war on Iran not sparked a mass protest movement?
Nura Hossainzadeh
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The myth of Gulf exceptionalism and US protection is over
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Israel's war on Lebanon
Can Hezbollah dominate the lower air battlefield against Israel?
Omar Ashour
Islamophobia
By downplaying Islamophobic attacks over antisemitism, the BBC is reinforcing racism
Faisal Hanif
Islamophobia
The Muslim victim who wasn't there: Golders Green and the 'ghost logic' of Islamophobia
Ismail Patel
Israel's war on Lebanon
How Lebanon's leaders are enabling Israel's war on their own country
Amal Saad
War on Iran
Saudi Arabia and its allies must curb the growing Israeli-Emirati axis
David Hearst
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Israel is making Palestinians disappear in more ways than one
Belen Fernandez
UK Politics
Gaza was the scandal that should have ended Keir Starmer’s political career
Hamza Yusuf
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Iran taught me what love is. So if I die tomorrow, I have lived well
Ghazal Tanhaei
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Israel's policy of endless war is fuelled by the crisis of Zionism
Andrew Hammond
Germany
Germany's 'constructive dialogue' is a sham, a cloak used to shield its support of a genocidal regime
Jurgen Mackert
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Can Israel's war economy survive its growing global isolation?
Antony Loewenstein
Islamophobia
Golders Green attacks: A Muslim was also stabbed - not that you'd know 
Barry Malone
War on Iran
War on Iran has triggered a fundamental crisis of trust in the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
Seyed Hossein Mousavian
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Gaza cannot be rebuilt until Palestinians control their own political future
Alaa Tartir
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Months into the US-Israel 'ceasefire', Gaza remains a scene of chaos and terror
Ghada Ageel
Gulf Tensions
UAE's Opec exit seeks to hit Saudi Arabia where it hurts
Mohamad Elmasry
Israel's genocide in Gaza
The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel - and about itself – is finally being burst
Jonathan Cook
War on Iran
By failing to sanction Israel, the EU has confirmed once again its global irrelevance
Marco Carnelos
UK Politics
Britain created the template for Israel's occupation. It must own up to its crimes in Palestine
Tahir Ali
British Muslims
British Muslims oppose the war on Iran? No kidding, so do most Brits
Hassan Joudi
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Trump's threats to steal Iran's oil continue a long history of US pillage
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US Politics

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Discover

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Culture
Call of Duty co-founder says Activision wanted game about Iran attacking Israel
Film
Berlinale 2026: Films play second fiddle to Gaza controversies for the third year running
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Why a group of digital linguists are trying to revitalise the long-extinct Phoenician language
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El Sett: Why did the Saudi-backed biopic about Umm Kulthum flop?
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Hebrew Orientalism: How Jewish scholarship on the Arab world helped colonise Palestine
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Anas al-Sharif was murdered for being Gaza's voice
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Iran-Israel tensions
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Israel's genocide in Gaza
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