Archives for September, 2024

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese city of Baalbeck in the Bekaa Valley

Nearly 500 dead in Israeli strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon

Agence France-Presse

Maher Zino, 39, sits with his wife and children for coffee outside their tent at a makeshift camp in the central Gaza Strip

Bereaved and destitute: Gazans a year after October 7

Agence France-Presse

Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza's largest medical facility, has been the target of two major Israeli military raids

Gaza hospital a symbol of the ruin of war

Agence France-Presse

Rockets fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome defence system on October 7, 2023

October 7: how Israel's deadliest day unfolded

Agence France-Presse

A street in Tel Aviv after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023

A nation in pain: Israelis a year after October 7

Agence France-Presse

Relatives and friends attend memorial ceremony for the Kutz family who were killed when Hamas militants stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023

Kibbutz visit stirs grim memories of Israeli family slain on October 7

Agence France-Presse

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Chairman of Sudan's Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan at Beijing for the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Sept. 6, 2024. — Chinese government

Analysis

China-Sudan relations: Can Beijing, Khartoum look beyond oil?

The Burhan-Xi meeting serves as a vivid reminder that Sudan — 16 years ago a high priority issue for China’s foreign policy — is now a country in turmoil, fading from Chinese diplomatic priorities but with significant interests for Beijing.

Yun Sun

In Washington, DC, reporting on China-Middle East ties

A rocket from Israel's Iron Dome air defence system is fired to intercept rockets fired from Lebanon on September 22

Israel and Hezbollah urged to avoid 'catastrophe'

Agence France-Presse

Medics wheel a patient into the underground parking area of Haifa's Rambam hospital

Israelis in north worried but 'used to' Hezbollah threat

Agence France-Presse

Badr Abdelatty spoke ahead of an annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations

Egypt fears 'all out' regional war: foreign minister to AFP

Agence France-Presse

Black-clad mourners file past, one bearing a picture of killed Radwan Force chief Ibrahim Aqil

Mourners at commander's funeral express loyalty to Hezbollah

Agence France-Presse

National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby said there was 'still time and space for a diplomatic solution'

Military escalation not in Israel's 'best interest': White House

Agence France-Presse

Sudanese refugees from Darfur who fled to Birao, in the neighbouring Central African Republic

'Barely anyone left': Sudan's El-Fasher devastated by fighting

Agence France-Presse

Pictures of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh hang on the channel's office in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, which an Israeli court ordered shut for 45 days

Israel forces raid Al Jazeera TV in West Bank, order 45-day closure

Agence France-Presse

Rescuers fear workers are still trapped inside Iran's Tabas mine after a deadly blast caused by a gas leak

Iran blast kills more than 50 mine workers

Agence France-Presse

A member of the Israeli security forces in Kiryat Bialik, near the city of Haifa, after a Hezbollah rocket strike from Lebanon

Calls for Israel and Hezbollah to step back from the abyss

Agence France-Presse