Middle East

Features

Watch/Listen

Latest Updates

  1. A young girl sweeps up with a brush outside a tent in Gaza City, northern Gaza (24 August 2026)

  2. Grainy image from CCTV of a man from behind reaching out to push a nun as both walk in a street in Jerusalem (28/04/26)

  3. Ras Al Khaimah beach, which is sandy and has a clear blue sea. There are a few tall buildings scattered along the coast.

  4. Sliman Mansour stands in front of his artwork, On the Wing of an Angel, Part of the Palestinian Museum Permanent Collection, in Birzeit, in the occupied West Bank

  5. An Israeli armoured vehicle moves along a street as tear gas fills the air, during a raid in Qalandia refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank (25 August 2026)

  6. A man in a blue shirt hits a stone memorial with a sledgehammer

  7. A woman clad in black walks in front of a poster that shows a toppled Statue of Liberty in front of a crowd waving red flags

  8. Iranian Riyal notes with pictures of the Ayatollah on, over the top of a US dollar bill.

  9. The mother of Amal Abu Khater, 10, is comforted outside Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza (24 August 2026)

  10. Iranian Ryal notes with pictures of the Ayatollah on, over the top of a US dollar

  11. Several people walk on the streets of Tehran on a shaded street in July.

  12. Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, August 25, 2026

  13. An Air Arabia plane in flight. It is white with red signage.

  14. A woman with short brown hair is stood in front of flowers in her shop. She is wearing a black and white dress and looking straight into the camera.

  15. Two men in dark suits and red ties smile and shake hands in front of windows and American flags

  16. File photo showing Syria's then grand mufti, Ahmed Hassoun, speaking inside the Cathedral of Mar Elias in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on 20 July 2020

  17. A graphic from the Dragon Ball Z comic is seen displayed on a wall above several people on computers

  18. A Palestinian boy holds a kite at a displacement camp in Gaza City (23 August 2026)

  19. An aerial view of the village of Beit Jinn in Damascus, Syria

  20. Three Israeli settlers stand outside houses after the reopening of a settlement at Ganim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on 13 August. One is a man armed with a rifle. The image has a blue border with the BBC Verify logo in the the top left corner.

  21. John Chapman, James Henderson and James Kirby were among the seven World Central Kitchen workers killed in Israeli strikes

  22. An Israeli settler in a white shirt and carrying a gun walks in front of a wall

  23. US President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting in on 27 May 2026

  24. Trump, wearing a suit and no tie and a white "USA" hat, descending from airplane steps