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Biden plans $13b arms sale to Israel

The new weapons are a last-minute show of support for the US president’s close ally after more than a year of war in Gaza.

  • Felicia Schwartz
The late Jimmy Carter was something of a deregulator and fresh thinker in office. But the electorate wasn’t fed up enough at that stage to entertain a total rupture with the postwar Keynesian consensus.

Rich democracies need an acute crisis to trigger real change

It is almost impossible to sell voters on drastic reforms until their nation is in acute trouble. The chronic kind isn’t enough.

  • Janan Ganesh
Flooding at a refugee tent camp in Gaza. The Houthis say their maritime campaign is in protest of Israel’s war against Hamas militants.

US steps up strikes on Houthis as tensions with Israel flare

The strikes mark the latest salvo in a year-long US-led campaign aimed at halting attacks by the militant group.

  • Missy Ryan

December 2024

Syrian journalist Bassel Shehadeh was one of more than 500,000 people estimated to have been killed in Syria since 2011.

Bassel was right about the Assads. It couldn’t save him

The 27-year-old had a Fulbright Scholarship and the future was bright. This is the story of one man’s pursuit of freedom for Syria.

  • Andrew Burke
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad piled almost $400m in cash onto planes and fly them to Russia, before his regime fell.

How Assad secretly sent 21 planeloads of Syria’s cash to Moscow

The near-broke central bank sent almost $400 million in bulk shipments between 2018 and 2019 to Russia when the dictator was indebted to the Kremlin.

  • Miles Johnson, Mehul Srivastava and Chloe Cornish
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Benjamin Netanyahu: “Eight years I’ve waited for this day. Eight years I have waited to present the truth.”

Netanyahu set to take the stand in long-running corruption trial

The Israeli prime minister is accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of cigars and champagne from a billionaire Hollywood producer.

  • Tia Goldenberg
Hamas’s political leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, masterminded the October 7 attacks that changed the course of Middle East history.

Iran must wish it never heard of Yahya Sinwar

Iran’s “axis of resistance” is destroyed, and its horizons have narrowed to a choice between pragmatism and, quite literally, going nuclear.

  • Adrian Blomfield and Akhtar Makoii
Bashar and Asma talk with artists in 2018 in one of the tunnels that were dug by rebels near Damascus. The image was released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian presidency.

Stubborn Assad’s fall was unexpected. But the signs were always there

Bashar al-Assad missed numerous opportunities to recast himself both at home and abroad.

  • Liz Sly
Syrian opposition fighters stand atop a seized military armoured vehicle on the outskirts of Hama on Tuesday.

With Assad challenged, cutting Syria’s ties to Iran gets harder

Efforts by the Gulf nations, particularly the United Arab Emirates, to lure the Syrian president away from his regional allies have been under way for a while.

  • Erika Solomon, Ronen Bergman and Adam Rasgon
Syrian opposition fighters ride on a motorcycle past Syrian army planes at the Al-Nayrab military airport after they took control of the facility in the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, on Monday.

What led to Syria’s 13-year civil war, and why has fighting surged again?

The sudden assault by Syrian rebels has redrawn the front lines of a war many thought was over. Here’s what to know.

  • Kelly Kasulis Cho and Kelsey Baker
Syrian opposition fighters drive a seized Syrian tank near the town of Khan Assubul.

Iran pledges support for Syria to halt rebel advance

Damascus launched airstrikes to push back the insurgents who have taken the northern city of Aleppo in a surprise attack.

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  • Kareem Chehayeb

November 2024

Benjamin Netanyahu announces a ceasefire with Hezbollah.

Netanyahu eyes ‘total victory’ after ceasefire deal

After successfully crippling Hezbollah, Israel’s prime minister finally agreed a ceasefire in Lebanon and will now turn his full attention back to Gaza.

  • Neri Zilber and James Shotter
Donald Trump back in the Oval Office may not bring the results we expect.

Trump is all power with no grand strategy

The US president-elect’s delight in being unpredictable may end up dissipating US power rather than strengthening it. Australians may come to regret that.

  • Peter Varghese
Rescue workers and residents search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut.

Israeli airstrike hits central Beirut as ceasefire talks continue

Two missiles hit the area of Zoqaq al-Blat neighbourhood – where local UN headquarters and Lebanon’s parliament and prime minister’s office are located.

  • Sally Abou Aljoud
People and rescue workers gather next to destroyed cars after Israeli airstrike in Aalmat village, northern Lebanon.

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria

The strike in Lebanon killed at least 23 people, including seven children, far from the areas where Hezbollah has a major presence.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Kareem Chehayeb
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Trump has been the target of one failed assassination attempt so far this year, by an American man.

Iranian agents plotted to kill Trump

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Friday that Iranian plotters had discussed a plan to assassinate Donald Trump before he was re-elected as president this week.

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  • Benjamin Weiser, Devlin Barrett and Christopher Maag
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Macquarie slumps; Trump’s dubious ‘secrets’; 10 Melbourne legends

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

“Sejjil” missiles systems are displayed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard during an annual armed forces parade in September.

Iran preparing strike on Israel from Iraq within days, Axios reports

Israeli intelligence suggests Iran is preparing to attack Israel from Iraqi territory in the coming days, possibly before the US presidential election.

  • Reuters

October 2024

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Inflation falls; Trump wants revenge: Harris; Woolies’ profit mess

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Hezbollah’s deputy leader Sheik Naim Kassem has been appointed the group’s new head.

Hezbollah names new leader as Israel warns assassination coming

The Iran-backed militant group has appointed cleric Naim Qassem as its new head, after its longtime chief was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

  • Bassem Mroue

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