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Middle East / 23 August 2026
23 August 2026
Decommissioned Syrian air force planes at Abu Duhur military air base, Idlib, December 7, 2024
Middle East / 23 August 2026
23 August 2026
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, August 19, 2026, in Washington
United States / 20 August 2026
20 August 2026
Mourners arrive to attend a ceremony marking 40 days since the burial of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla in Tehran, Iran, August 18, 2026
Middle East / 18 August 2026
18 August 2026
Activists march with food and water supplies toward the houses of three Palestinian families that have been besieged by Israeli settlers for six days, in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, south of Nablus, August 14, 2026
Opinion / 19 August 2026
19 August 2026

There is a determined effort to reverse the diplomatic gains of the Palestinians, despite the shift in worldwide global opinion. Solidarity demands no return to business as usual, argues Ramzy Baroud 

A motorist fills up their car at a petrol station in Colorado, August 12, 2026
Cost-of-Living Crisis / 16 August 2026
16 August 2026
Demonstrators from CND and Fairford Action during an emergency protest outside the main gate of RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire, following an attack on Iran by a US B-1 bomber stationed there earlier this week, July 25, 2026
Iran War / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026

Peace activists and trade unionists to gather at RAF Fairford to protest against US bombers taking off from Britain to strike Iran

Sailors and Marines line the deck of aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) as it deploys from San Diego, January 3, 2021
Middle East / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL: A young man with a poignant Walt Whitman t-shirt:  ‘Keep your face always towards the summertime and shadows will fall behind you’ reacts humorously to the camera in northern Tehran, Iran last Thursday
Middle East / 15 August 2026
15 August 2026

The US aim to reshape the existing order in the Middle East needs to be resolutely resisted, argues PAYAM SOLHTALAB

An explosion at the Sanaa International Airport compound during what the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said were several Saudi airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, July 13, 2026
Middle East / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026
A Palestinian child pushes a wheelchair carrying empty water jerrycans at a camp for displaced people in Gaza City, August 13, 2026
Palestine / 13 August 2026
13 August 2026
ENOUGH SAID ACT NOW: Bodies of members of the Hassayna and Abu Sharia families, killed in an Israeli strike in 2023 have recently been recovered from the rubble are given a proper burial in Gaza City on August 4 2026
Gaza Genocide / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026

Given the recent rejection of peace proposals by Israel the world must provide an immediate and resolute response to force accountability on Gaza, argues RAMZY BAROUD

Vehicles drive past a statue of a swinging boy at a square in Tehran, Iran, August 10, 2026
Middle East / 11 August 2026
11 August 2026
Then Syria President Bashar al-Assad arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris for his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, December 9, 2010
Middle East / 11 August 2026
11 August 2026
Young men ride motorcycles along the shore as a tractor pulls equipment from the water and commercial vessels appear anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, July 27, 2026
Middle East / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
Cargo ships, including bulk carriers and general cargo vessels, sit at anchor offshore as a small motorboat passes in the foreground, in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 4 , 2026
Middle East war / 4 August 2026
4 August 2026
the Strait of Hormuz
Middle East war / 3 August 2026
3 August 2026
A man sits on a surfboard as a container ship and other commercial vessels appear anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, July 27, 2026
Middle East / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
McLaren driver Lando Norris (left) leads the field after the start during the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix auto race, at the Hungaroring racetrack in Mogyorod, near Budapest, Hungary, July 26, 2026
Formula One / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
(L to R) Gaza Strip famine; Fergie Chambers in March 2023 / Pics (L to R): Ashraf Amra/UNRWA/CC; Town Meeting TV/CC
Authoritarianism / 31 July 2026
31 July 2026

CARLOS MARTINEZ looks at the facts behind US persecution of Fergie Chambers

Iranian missiles in a temporary exhibition in front of the Azadi (Freedom) monument in Tehran, Iran, July 29, 2026
Middle East / 29 July 2026
29 July 2026
US President Donald Trump listens as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Mar-a-Lago club, December 29, 2025
Iran War / 28 July 2026
28 July 2026
Motorcyclists ride past a billboard depicting US President Donald Trump with hands around his neck alongside the message ‘Revenge is inevitable’ in English and Farsi, in Tehran, Iran, July 27, 2026
Middle East / 27 July 2026
27 July 2026