As much of the Middle East remains closed amid missile barrages, international airlines are being squeezed into a shrinking set of flight paths.
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Israel, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates…
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‘They don’t care about Lebanon’: anger with Hezbollah boils as war returns to weary Beirut | Lebanon
Abu Yehya and his two sons awoke to the sound of bombing in the early hours of Monday morning. A dozen blasts, one just a few hundred metres away, sent them into the streets of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
They walked for four hours, bleary-eyed,…
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Will Europe’s split on US strikes backfire?
Europe’s streets were full of jubilant Iranians from the diaspora this weekend after US-Israeli strikes killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“The dictator is dead. This is the best day of my life,” one man told DW as he…
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Hundreds of foreign nationals evacuate from Iran to Azerbaijan amid escalating conflict
Estimates suggest that at least 370-400 people have safely sought refuge in Azerbaijan after crossing the Astara border checkpoint. Some 100 of those were Azerbaijani nationals with the rest being expats from 19 different countries.
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Live Updates: U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran widens
Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states, apparently hitting the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait, while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran as the war expanded Monday with…
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