The Latest Breaking News from the Middle East

ANALYSIS: These strikes set Israel firmly against Qatar and make Doha – once a main meeting point and venue for truce negotiations – now a new theatre of war in the Gaza conflict, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew

There's no word yet as to whether the cuts were accidental or sabotage.

On Sunday, internet connectivity across Asia and the Middle East was disrupted after multiple subsea cables in the Red Sea were damaged.

Microsoft was forced to reroute Azure traffic on Saturday, September 6, after two major submarine cable systems were severed in the Red Sea, triggering latency spikes and degraded performance for cloud users across South Asia and the Gulf.

Microsoft warns customers of ‘increased latency’ in connectivity and says efforts are under way to resolve the issue.

Is the conflict in Eastern Europe a “special military operation in Ukraine” or a “Russian invasion”? And when it comes to events in the Middle East, are we talking about the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” the “War on Gaza” or the “Israel-Hamas war”?

Europe’s ability to help bring peace to the Middle East has long come under question, with Spain’s PM this week saying it had failed on Gaza

Muriel Bowser says she and the president did not talk about his possible plan to extend federal takeover, which would need congressional approval

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) is seen by many as an essential peacekeeping buffer between Israel, Lebanon and Hezbollah. But Israeli pressure, US doubts over Unifil’s cost-effectiveness and the fragile state of Lebanon’s politics means there is a risk that instead of being renewed on August 31…