Middle East

• BBC News2026-10-13✓ Read

  Death threats and isolation - the cost of fighting sexual violence in Iraq

  Women say they share stories of abuse to highlight the issue, despite social pressure and safety fears.

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• BBC News2026-10-13✓ Read

  BBC’s Orla Guerin travels with Yemen’s southern national security forces through desert battlefield

  Orla Guerin travelled through Yemen, with forces loyal to its internationally recognised government, to a remote desert battlefield where Houthi rebels were dislodged just days ago.

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• BBC News2026-10-12✓ Read

  On Yemen’s desert battlefield, a war with global consequences is being waged

  Yemen's entrenched civil war is now impossible to ignore. But in operating rooms in its port city of Aden, geopolitics feels remote.

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• BBC News2026-10-12✓ Read

  Why is it so hard to fight the Houthis?

  Security correspondent Frank Gardner explains how the Iran-backed Houthis' precision strikes and guerrilla tactics have made it difficult for Saudi forces to gain the upper hand.

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• BBC News2026-10-12✓ Read

  Saudi minister vows ‘serious response’ to Houthi attacks on airports

  It comes after the armed group hit Riyadh's international airport and another facility, killing 13 people, in a significant escalation.

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• BBC News2026-10-12✓ Read

  Watch: CCTV shows people take cover as missile hits Riyadh airport

  Footage from inside the airport shows the moment the strike hit on Saturday.

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• BBC News2026-10-11✓ Read

  Dozens of gold prospectors killed in strikes on Egypt-Sudan border, rights group says

  Neither Egypt nor Sudan has commented on the alleged strikes on an artisanal mining camp on Saturday.

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• BBC News2026-10-11✓ Read

  Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh airport hit by second Houthi strike in two days

  The Yemeni group says it carried out attacks that killed 13 people in Riyadh over the weekend and targeted two airports and oil facilities.

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• BBC News2026-10-11✓ Read

  Airport attacks another dangerous moment in already tense conflict

  While the physical damage from Houthi attacks can be quickly repaired, the Saudi reputation for stability is taking a battering.

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• BBC News2026-10-08✓ Read

  Why was the sign at the British consulate in East Jerusalem removed?

  The consulate, first established in 1838, was set to be closed by the Israeli government in retaliation for UK sanctions.

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• BBC News2026-10-08✓ Read

  ‘Every day there is killing’: Gazans face Israeli strikes despite ceasefire as peace deal stalls

  Many Palestinians are still living in cramped tent cities, with the US plan to end the war largely stalled.

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• Al-Monitor: The Pulse of The Middle East2026-10-07✓ Read

  Golf star Rahm quitting LIV tour over ‘unacceptable’ terms

  Jon Rahm is quitting LIV Golf due to "unacceptable" terms, the star's lawyer said on Wednesday, dealing a significant blow to the divisive breakaway tour as it attempts to relaunch itself after declaring bankruptcy. Along with Bryson DeChambeau, double major winner and former world number one Rahm was arguably the most prominent golfer to defect from the PGA Tour and join the free-spending Saudi-backed league. But LIV filed for bankruptcy protection last month after its deep-pocketed Middle Eastern backers pulled the plug.

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Trump says Russia plague death unlikely linked to bioweapon

  ALBAWABA- US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that American officials do not believe the death of a laboratory worker in Russia is linked to a biological weapon, while calling for greater transparency from Moscow

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• Al-Monitor: The Pulse of The Middle East2026-10-07✓ Read

  Syria weighs military aid for Saudi Arabia amid Yemen war, sources say

  By Timour AzhariRIYADH, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Syria is carefully considering providing military assistance to key ally Saudi Arabia amid an escalating war against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, a US official and a Syrian military official briefed on the matter said.Options being considered include defensive aid to protect the kingdom from attacks, or deployment of forces in an offensive capacity to help Saudi-backed Yemeni troops fight the Houthis,

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• Iran International2026-10-07✓ Read

  Kayhan attacks Ghalibaf’s role in talks. Didn’t Khamenei approve it?

  An editorial questioning Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf’s role as Iran’s lead negotiator has raised an awkward question in Tehran: who exactly is Kayhan criticizing, given that senior officials have said the parliament speaker was given the job with the Supreme Leader’s approval?

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Two killed, 28 injured in Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport

  ALBAWABA- Two people were killed and 28 others were injured after a Houthi attack targeted Abha International Airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said Wednesday, as the conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis entered a new phase of escalation

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• Al-Monitor: The Pulse of The Middle East2026-10-07✓ Read

  Bulgaria halts rescue operation for crew of sunken ship

  By Alex Lefkowitz SOFIA, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Bulgaria has halted its search for the missing crew of a ship that sank after being hit by a drone about 70 nautical miles (130 km) off its coast, Vice-Admiral Rumen Nikolov of the Maritime Administration Executive Agency said on Wednesday. Early on Tuesday, two ships were hit in a drone attack in Bulgaria's Black Sea exclusive economic zone. One sank and the other was damaged. The crew of the damaged ship were rescued, but the crew of the sunken one remain missing.

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• Al-Monitor: The Pulse of The Middle East2026-10-07✓ Read

  US quietly aids Saudi Arabia’s Yemen offensive with intel, refueling

  Pentagon aims to keep Yemen and Iran wars separate while shielding the flow of Gulf oil exports from attack as Riyadh bears the brunt of the Houthis’ missile and drone barrages.

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Former German spy chief held on suspected treason and espionage

  ALBAWABA- A German federal judge on Wednesday ordered former intelligence chief August Hanning to remain in pre-trial detention after prosecutors accused the 80-year-old of treasonous espionage, obtaining state secrets, attempted treason and other intelligence-related offences

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• Iran International2026-10-07✓ Read

  China’s turn to Iraqi crude shows growing impact of Iran oil blockade

  China’s independent refiners are turning to Iraqi crude to replace dwindling Iranian supplies as a US blockade chokes Tehran’s exports, forcing some of Iran’s biggest oil customers to seek barrels elsewhere.

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