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  • Second day of Eid al-Fitr in GazaKHAN YUNIS, GAZA - MARCH 21: A man tosses a baby into the air as Palestinian children receive Eid treats distributed volunteers of a charity organization on the second day of Eid al-Fitr amid rubbles in Khan Yunis, Gaza on March 21, 2026. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds

  • Marco Rubio at the G7 summit. He is seen in closeup from a low camera angle with gold-tipped flagpoles behind him.

    Rubio insists strait of Hormuz will be toll-free as he arrives for Gulf meeting

  • Iran will qualify for the next round if they win on Friday

    Department of Homeland Security will allow Iran to travel to US early for World Cup match

  • Destruction due to Israeli attacks unveiled in Southern Lebanon's Marjayoun DistrictMARJAYOUN, LEBANON - JUNE 22: A view of the widespread destruction inside the towns of Dibbin and Blat in the Marjayoun district of southern Lebanon on June 22, 2026 following Israeli attacks. Following the implementation of a fragile, U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement aimed at pausing hostilities, the true scale of the devastation caused by intense Israeli military airstrikes and artillery shelling has been revealed. Numerous residential homes have been completely flattened, local civil infrastructure is severely fractured, and entire residential neighborhoods have been rendered largely uninhabitable. (Photo by Ramiz Dallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: Rubio and Vance hold call with Lebanon’s president; Trump claims Iran has agreed to nuclear inspections ‘long into future’ – as it happened

  • UK prioritised ties with UAE over averting mass atrocities in Sudan, MPs to be told

  • double quotation markIn Iran, Trump’s victory claims only deepened a self-made catastrophe

    Sidney Blumenthal

  • ‘Compound shock effect’: why the Middle East crisis and El Niño could spell disaster in south-east Asia

  • Iranian girls walk past an anti-US mural

    Middle East crisis live
    US-Iran talks laid ‘very good foundation for a successful final deal’, says Vance – as happened

    The vice president said the move represented a ‘major milestone’ in ending Iran’s nuclear programme
  • A woman walks past a mural in Tehran depicting Iranian and US representative at a negotiation table

    Iran agrees to UN nuclear inspectors’ return as part of agreement with US

    Other measures include Washington lifting sanctions on Tehran’s oil exports and reopening the strait of Hormuz
  • Two women and a man walk along a busy pedestrian street in Tehran at dusk

    Iran’s regime survived the war. Can it make peace with its own people?

    If war triggered a rare moment of solidarity in the divided country, many doubt it will be used for reform
  • JD Vance looks on prior to a quadrilateral meeting between the United States, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar.

    US-Iran talks strained as Trump threats spark Iranian walkout

  • Vice President Vance Attends US-Iran Peace Talks In SwitzerlandSTANSSTAD, SWITZERLAND - JUNE 21: U.S. Vice President JD Vance waits, alongside Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions and U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, to meet with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for high-level talks aimed at advancing a deal to end the Middle East conflict at the Buergenstock Resort, Lake Lucerne on June 21, 2026 near Stansstad, Switzerland. Vance is visiting Switzerland for negotiations with Iran to end the war that have been delayed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon and over the opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Photo by Nathan Howard-Pool/Getty Images)

    Trump faces fresh bipartisan criticism on Iran deal as Vance hails peace talks

  • A Lebanese army soldier inspects the damage in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in Nabatieh, Lebanon on Sunday.

    Middle East crisis live
    Trump threatens Iran after JD Vance hails ‘great progress’ made in Switzerland talks – as it happened

  • Protesters and Palestinian landowners who say some of their land was taken for Mount Tarousa settlement run from tear gas fired by Israeli forces on 19 June 2026.

    The Guardian view on Israel and the West Bank: allies must protect Palestinian lives and livelihoods

  • Secret correspondence claims suggest tensions at top of Iranian government

  • Nowhere is safe
    ‘A hunting ground for foreign regimes’: why violent attacks on dissidents are on the rise in Britain

  • JD Vance meets Pakistan delegation before Iran talks in Switzerland – video

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  • Four months after the horrific Iran school bombing, fears grow that Trump and Hegseth will bury the truth

  • Inside the Guardian
    ‘They didn’t know or care, or wouldn’t say’: how we investigated the casualties of a covert US war

  • Iran says it is closing strait of Hormuz over Israeli strikes in Lebanon

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