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Assad downfall was planned by US and Israel, claims Iran’s supreme leader

Khamenei says ‘America and Zionists’ masterminded collapse of Syrian regime that was backed by TehranMiddle East crisis – live updatesIran’s supreme leader has claimed the US and Israel acted as the command centre that engineered the downfall of Syria’s former president, Bashar al-Assad, a...

11/12/2024 14:36 The Guardian
Middle East crisis live: rebel-backed Syrian interim prime minister urges ‘stability and calm’

Mohammed al-Bashir chairs cabinet meeting of new transitional government and will lead interim authority until 1 MarchSyrian rebels name new PM as outside powers move to shore up interestsHello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the Middle East crisis.Syria’s new interim leader said...

11/12/2024 06:22 The Guardian
Monarch butterflies to be added to threatened species list in the US

US Fish and Wildlife Service extends protections to ‘iconic’ insects, who experts say may not survive climate crisisThe US Fish and Wildlife Service announced a decision on Tuesday to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that population...

10/12/2024 20:20 The Guardian
Israel strikes hundreds of military targets in Syria

Turkey accuses Israel of displaying occupier mentality and UN envoy says airstrikes must ceaseMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsraeli warplanes have intensified an air offensive in Syria, striking hundreds of military targets and destroying entire squadrons of fighters, radar and missile systems,...

10/12/2024 18:19 The Guardian
Israel warned over Syria airstrikes as it denies its tanks are near Damascus – Middle East crisis live

UN special envoy to Syria has cautioned Israel that its airstrikes and ground invasion need to stop, saying it is violating 1974 agreementShare your reaction to the fall of AssadThe first western journalist to gain access to Sednaya prison was the Guardian’s William Christou, and he spoke to Archi...

10/12/2024 13:17 The Guardian
Syrian leader offers reward for details of Assad officials involved in war crimes

Ahmed al-Sharaa promises torturers will be held accountable bringing hopes of justice for atrocities committed under brutal regimeMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe rebel leader now running much of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has offered rewards for senior army and intelligence officers involved in...

10/12/2024 12:51 The Guardian
UK politics live: Stop using money on non-priority areas, Reeves tells ministers, as she launches spending review

Chancellor due to speak at hospital event this morning as cabinet ministers have been asked to seek 5% efficiency savings in their departmentsThe Conservative party responded to the Treasury breifing about the spending review (see 9.20am) by arguing that Labour could not be trusted to cut costs. Thi...

10/12/2024 10:33 The Guardian
Ministers must reassure consumers feeding cattle Bovaer is safe, says Lady Sheehan

Government should point to evidence of FSA licensing of additive, says chair of environment and climate change committeeThe government must urgently reassure consumers that feed additives given to cattle to reduce methane emissions are harmless, and a vital tool in tackling the climate crisis, the c...

10/12/2024 05:00 The Guardian
Wes Streeting holds urgent talks with NHS bosses in England as winter crisis expected

Health secretary tells hospitals to put safety above waiting time targets days after warning of potential ‘quad-demic’Wes Streeting has held urgent talks with NHS leaders in England about how the service will cope with an impending winter crisis, amid signs that it is already under intense press...

09/12/2024 13:52 The Guardian
Arab states will talk to all forces in Syria to prevent reignition of war, says Qatar

‘No one party or sect should feel unsafe,’ says Qatari foreign ministry, as states meet to assess collapse of Assad regimeMiddle East crisis – live updatesQatar has said Arab states will seek to avert the threat of a reignited Syrian civil war by starting an open dialogue with all the forces o...

08/12/2024 17:33 The Guardian
Bashar al-Assad has fled Syria – but where is the former dictator now?

Ex-president has not been pictured since he vowed to ‘crush’ rebels a week ago and his location is unclearMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe fate and whereabouts of former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad remained unclear on Sunday as his ally Russia, which had long sustained him in office, s...

08/12/2024 16:40 The Guardian
Hezbollah’s war with Israel left the Assad regime fatally exposed

With the fall of Damascus, Iran can no longer deny that its political and military ‘axis of resistance’ has collapsedMiddle East crisis – live updatesIt was not a coincidence that the Syrian group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began its push for the city of Aleppo on the same day that Israel and...

08/12/2024 14:41 The Guardian
Angela Rayner says she welcomes fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad

UK deputy prime minister says Assad ‘wasn’t exactly good to the Syrian people’ after rebels seize DamascusMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe UK government welcomes the fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the deputy prime minister said after rebel forces took control of Damascus.Angel...

08/12/2024 14:18 The Guardian
Fall of Damascus sidelines Russia and brings Turkey to the fore

As Moscow’s top diplomat reeled in Doha, his Turkish counterpart appeared to know he had the upper handMiddle East crisis – live updatesAs celebratory gunfire was heard across liberated Syria, the diplomatic guns of Iran and Russia, in Doha to attend a major dialogue forum, fell silent, rendered...

08/12/2024 11:58 The Guardian
The fall of Assad: Putin must be in crisis mode - while Trump may have little choice but to get involved

The lightning collapse of Bashar al Assad's regime in Syria exposes the brittleness of even the most brutal dictatorship when under pressure, but it also creates a security vacuum that carries great risk....

08/12/2024 09:16 Skynews
One million elderly people skipping meals amid winter fuel benefit crisis

The row over Labour’s cuts to pensioners’ energy payments is about to flare up again after damning new research The row over the government’s decision to slash winter fuel payments is set to be reignited after new evidence revealed that more than 1 million older people are skipping meals beca...

07/12/2024 18:00 The Guardian
As Assad’s power crumbles, Turkey, Iran and Russia disagree on way forward for Syria

Foreign powers urge opposition groups to end fighting and preserve single, united country at talks in QatarThe three key external national actors in the Syrian crisis tried to regain control of the rebellion on Saturday by calling for renewed direct dialogue between the country’s President Bashar...

07/12/2024 17:47 The Guardian
Syrian rebels have reached Damascus suburbs, insurgent commander says

Hassan Abdul-Ghani says opposition forces have begun to encircle capital in ‘final stage’ of offensiveMiddle East crisis: latest news updatesSyrian insurgents have reached the suburbs of Damascus, opposition activists and a rebel commander said, as a rapidly moving offensive in which they have t...

07/12/2024 15:07 The Guardian
It will take years to clear medical evacuations backlog in Gaza, says WHO

UN body highlights only 78 out of 12,000 patients recently requiring evacuation have managed to leaveMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe World Health Organization is warning that the pace of medical evacuations of sick and wounded Palestinians out of Gaza, including several thousand children, is...

06/12/2024 13:37 The Guardian
Middle East crisis live: thousands of people flee Homs in central Syria as rebel forces push on

Rebels have captured key cities of Aleppo and Hama, dealing blows to president Bashar al-Assad 14 years after protests erupted across SyriaThe escalation in fighting in Syria has displaced about 280,000 people in just over a week, the UN said on Friday, warning that numbers could rise to 1.5 million...

06/12/2024 09:45 The Guardian
Gas warfare: News Corp tabloids’ week of energy doom ends with an anointed saviour | Weekly Beast

Front-page campaign, paid for by the gas industry, has been labelled ‘propaganda’. Plus: InDaily layoffs delivered to staff in fancy dressWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereA week of gushing about gas at News Corp climaxed on Friday wit...

06/12/2024 05:05 The Guardian
Georgia Tumbles Deeper Into Crisis as Opposition Leader is Detained

In a sign of a widening crackdown, security agents have searched the offices and homes of prominent activists and opposition leaders who fear the country is turning closer to Russia....

04/12/2024 18:56 New York Times
South Korea crisis live: President Yoon faces impeachment calls amid martial law outcry

Opposition Democratic party lawmakers call on Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or they would seek his impeachmentFull report: Yoon Suk Yeol faces calls to resign after martial law shockExplainer: what happened and what comes next?Only becoming a democracy in the late 1980s, military intervention...

04/12/2024 04:08 The Guardian
Middle East crisis live: ceasefire on edge after deadly Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon

Nine people reported killed as military hits Hezbollah targets while the Iran-backed group fires on IDF positionsIsrael responds to Hezbollah rocket attack with airstrikes on south LebanonAirstrikes hit hospitals in Syria’s Idlib region as insurgents fight Assad forcesIran’s official news agency...

03/12/2024 08:17 The Guardian
Tuesday briefing: Why Ireland bucked the trend for punishing incumbent governments

In today’s newsletter: After a general election, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil look set to retain power – how have two main, centre-right parties avoided the kicking seen elsewhere?Good morning. All over the western world, incumbent governments have been given a kicking over the cost of living cris...

03/12/2024 06:59 The Guardian
Middle East crisis: Israel strikes Lebanon amid fears ceasefire could collapse – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. You can read our latest full report here:Israel responds to Hezbollah rocket attack with airstrikes on south LebanonWe’re closing our Middle East crisis liveblog now after a day in which Israel and Hezbollah traded fire in Lebanon, five days after a ceasefire was decl...

02/12/2024 21:30 The Guardian
Syria crisis due to Assad’s refusal to engage with opposition, says Turkish minister

Iran’s foreign minister blamed Israel’s intervention instead, but emergency talks in Ankara said to be ‘constructive’Middle East crisis – live updatesThe crisis in Syria is the result of President Bashar al-Assad’s refusal to engage in political dialogue with the opposition, and not exte...

02/12/2024 19:04 The Guardian
Middle East crisis: Two killed as Lebanon accuses Israel of multiple ceasefire violations – as it happened

The speaker of the Lebanese parliament accuses Israel of more than 50 violations of dealWho are HTS and why are they advancing?Israeli media reports that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will give testimony in his corruption trial not in Jerusalem as originally planned, but in a fortified bunker in...

02/12/2024 15:01 The Guardian
Anti-opioid groups are ‘optimistic’ about Trump’s tariffs. Will the move help tackle the fentanyl crisis?

Campaigners say imposing fee on Mexico, Canada and China till they address drug smuggling could be effectiveAnti-opioid campaigners in the US have welcomed Donald Trump’s threat to hit Mexico, China and Canada with increased trade tariffs if they do not curb the smuggling of the powerful drug driv...

02/12/2024 12:00 The Guardian
Monday briefing: How the civil war in Syria reignited

In today’s newsletter: President Bashar al-Assad’s forces were driven from Aleppo over the weekend by a rebel offensive, forcing global attention to turn back to the country• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. Eight years ago, indiscriminate Russian airstrikes he...

02/12/2024 06:46 The Guardian
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