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TEHRAN, IRAN - JUNE 15: Fire and smoke rise into the sky after an Israeli attack on the Shahran oil depot on June 15, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. Iran’s foreign minister said the country would respond decisively and proportionally to a wave of attacks that Israel launched beginning in the early hours of June 13. The attacks targeted multiple military, scientific and residential locations, as well as senior government officials. (Photo by Stringer/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

An extraordinary shift in Israeli aggression, and the total redrawing of power in the Middle East

For nearly two decades, Israel avoided all-out war with its biggest enemies. Its broad assault on Iran highlights a shift in strategy.

  • Patrick Kingsley

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Why have some missiles penetrated Israel’s Iron Dome?

As conflict between Israel and Iran escalates, the damage is clear on the ground in both countries. How are Iran’s missiles evading Israeli defences?

  • Jackson Graham and Angus Holland
Ukrainian drones destroy Russian bombers

First Ukraine, now Israel: How smuggling drones is changing the art of war

Many details about the secretive operations and how they were carried out remain murky, but such missions can take years to plan and are fraught with danger.

  • Lara Jakes
A dead man is removed from the rubble of the Manoun family’s house after it was targeted by an Israeli army strike in Jabalia al-Balad, Gaza City on Sunday.

Israel to keep troops in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely. What does that mean?

Israel says it needs to hold on to the zones to prevent future attacks, but the takeovers appear to meet the dictionary definition of military occupation.

  • Joseph Krauss
Rescue workers inspect a room at Nasser hospital after it was hit by a targeted Israeli army strike in Khan Younis on Sunday

When the airstrike hit the surgical department, Israel got their target

Ismail Barhoum was reportedly being treated for wounds when the precision strike hit the hospital, killing him and four others, including a teenage patient, according to reports.

  • Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell
Gaza strikes March 18.

Israel launches heaviest strikes against Hamas since ceasefire began, hundreds dead

The surprise attack shattered a period of relative calm during Ramadan and raised the prospect of a full return to fighting in the 17-month war.

  • Wafaa Shurafa and Josef Federman
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The funeral procession for former Hezbollah leaders, Hassan Nasrallah, front, and Hashem Safieddine, circles around the track at the Sports City Stadium on February 23, 2025 in Beirut, Lebanon. Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Beirut to attend the funeral of Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital. Nasrallah founded and led the Shi’ite Muslim group for 30 years, through decades of conflict with Israel and became one of the most prominent Arab figures in generations. (Photo by Daniel Carde/Getty Images)

Thousands attend funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

Hezbollah called on its supporters to attend the funeral in large numbers in what appears to be a move to show that it remains powerful, while Israeli warplanes flew overhead.

  • Bassem Mroue, Abby Sewell and Sally Abou Aljoud
Displaced Palestinians wait near a roadblock after being stopped from returning to northern Gaza.

‘We’re worthless’: Israel blocks Palestinians going home to northern Gaza, kills 22 in Lebanon

Israeli forces opened fire on protesters demanding their planned withdrawal from Lebanon, while in Gaza, a dispute over a hostage appears settled.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss
Israeli army vehicles are seen during a military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin.

Israel pushes ahead with applying Gaza ‘lessons’ to West Bank

The operation is the third major incursion by the Israeli army in less than two years into Jenin, as the military says it is applying lessons learnt in Gaza.

  • James Mackenzie and Raneen Sawafta
ICJ presiding Judge Nawaf Salam reads the ruling on an urgent plea by South Africa for judges to order Israel to halt its military operations in Gaza and withdraw from the enclave, in May last year.

Lebanon names ICJ chief as PM of distressed nation, angering Hezbollah

The choice of diplomat Nawaf Salam, the chief justice in The Hague, to lead the country’s revival underlines a major shift in the power balance.

  • Omar Tamo and Dana Khraiche

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