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Middle East timeline

September 2023

  • Katya Adler on a staircase

    The BBC’s Katya Adler: ‘I was never in danger of taking myself too seriously’

    After 30 years of frontline reporting, the Europe editor still loves conversing with irate callers and is not above a laugh at her own expense

March 2023

  • A woman takes a selfie in Diyarbakir, Turkey.

    Nowruz: Kurdish new year 2023 celebrations – in pictures

    Nowruz, which has been celebrated for at least 3,000 years, is one of the most important celebrations in the greater Persian world, which includes the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey and portions of western China and northern Iraq

March 2022

  • A man is visited by the Cheer-Up Squad in his home during Purim in Stamford Hill.

    Purim celebrations and street parties in north London – in pictures

    Photographer Grey Hutton met up with some old friends to celebrate Purim on the streets of Stamford Hill in north London, as the Jewish community gathers for feasting, rejoicing and exchanging food

October 2020

  • Security personnel bundle Yitzhak Rabin into his car after he was shot at a peace rally in Tel Aviv on 4 November 1995

    The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin: ‘He never knew it was one of his people who shot him in the back’

    Twenty-five years after the death of the Israeli prime minister, those who were there recall the night two bullets altered the destiny of two nations

September 2020

  • 'It's going to be peace in the Middle East': Trump on historic accords – video

    A historic agreement signed between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House will, according to Donald Trump, 'be peace to the Middle East.'  

January 2020

  • Palestinian protesters in Gaza City wave national flags and chant during a protest against the Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan.

    The long read
    No deal: why Trump’s plan for Palestine will only create more conflict

    The long read: US policy for the Middle East cannot work because it requires the Palestinians to accept they are a defeated people

April 2018

  • 'A strong deterrent': Trump announces strikes on Syria – video

    US president Donald Trump announces military strikes targeting Syria's chemical weapons capabilities following the attack on Douma last week.

June 2016

  • Joseph Fiennes as Ross

    Ross review – Terence on Arabia

    A first-rate Joseph Fiennes saves the day in Terence Rattigan’s timid drama based on TE Lawrence

May 2015

  • Binyamin Netanyahu restated his commitment to a two-state solution in a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.

    UN resolution to impose 18-month deadline on Palestinian state talks

    Details of draft resolution emerge as France says it will unilaterally recognise Palestinian state if no deal reached in timeframe

March 2015

  • Issa Amro during a non-violent protest with his organisation

    Field posts
    Palestine field post: 'I am not your normal human rights campaigner'

    When Issa Amro came across Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence, he realised this would be his life’s work

August 2014

  • Nicolas Henin is greeted by his family in April 2014.

    Why don’t the US and UK pay ransoms for hostages?

    Adjoa Anyimadu
    Adjoa Anyimadu: Nicolas Henin, held captive with James Foley, believes his release was secured due to negotiation by the French government. America would not do so

April 2014

  • Tony Blair delivering his speech in Islamist extremism.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Tony Blair's speech calling for global drive to fight Islamist extremism - reaction: Politics live blog

    Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, including Tony Blair's speech on the need for the west to fight Islamist extremism, and reaction to it

February 2014

  • John Kerry

    The America-Israel lobby must fully back Kerry's Israel-Palestine initiative

    Alan Elsner

    Alan Elsner: Aipac has done much to strengthen the US-Israel relationship over decades of its existence. Now it should support Kerry

July 2013

  • Palestinians to return to direct peace talks

    Talks between Israel and Palestinian negotiators to start next week

    US secretary of state John Kerry calls agreement – announced after four months of diplomacy – 'a significant step forward'

April 2013

  • Grant Cameron, Karl Williams and Suneet Jeerh, British men on trial in Dubai on drugs charges

    British trio jailed in Dubai on drugs charges after police torture claim

    Men given four years in prison followed by deportation for drug offences, according to reports

March 2013

  • Noam Chomsky

    Saturday interview
    Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone'

    Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most controversial thinkers. Now 84, he reflects on his life's work, on current events in Syria and Israel, and on the love of his life – his wife

December 2012

  • Syrian conflict in pics

    Syrian civil war – in pictures

    While the UN-Arab League envoy for the Syria crisis says a diplomatic solution remains possible despite a sharply deteriorating situation, the armed conflict between government forces and opposition fighters continues

January 2012

  • Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf of Saudi Arabia and David Cameron

    Saudi Arabia: the Middle East's most under-reported conflict

    Toby Matthiesen
    Toby Matthiesen: Shia protesters, demanding long overdue and promised reforms, are bearing the brunt of a security crackdown

May 2011

  • Muammar Gaddafi's home in Gargour, Tripoli

    Gaddafi's son killed in Nato air strike, say Libyan officials

    Libya accuses west of trying to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi, who was unharmed in attack on villa complex in Tripoli

January 2011

  • The Promise

    A film-maker's eye on the Middle East

    Writer and director Peter Kosminsky has spent seven years making The Promise, a film about the Arab-Israeli conflict. What has he learned?
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