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Israel army says struck Hamas commander in Gaza hospital compound

Palestinians inspecting the damage following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Aug 27.

Israeli settlers stage new attack on home in West Bank's Qusra, witnesses say

Luay Bayrudi, the owner of a house that came under settler attack, outside of the medical center in Qusra, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 29, 2026. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Dozens of Israeli settlers attack flashpoint West Bank village

Israeli soldiers arrive at the scene where Israeli settlers attacked a Paletinian home in the village of Qusra, south of the city of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which has faced escalating Jewish settler violence over the past month, on August 29, 2026. Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Qusra in the northern occupied West Bank on August 29, residents and the military said, after nearly three weeks of tension in the area. Earlier in August, a group of settlers began blocking supplies from entering Palestinian houses on the outskirts of the village near Nablus, trapping residents inside and drawing domestic and international condemnation. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Druze factions block students from sitting exams in row with Syria govt

The Syrian authorities had scheduled an exam session for Aug 29 in the government-controlled north of the province.

War weighs on Iran’s economy as US intensifies sanctions

A picture of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is displayed at a store in a local market in Bandar Abbas, Iran.

Iran lashes out at US sanctions amid economic toll at home

The stand-off over the Strait of Hormuz – which handled a fifth of world oil supplies before the war – remains the conflict’s biggest unresolved flashpoint.

Iran says still open to diplomacy as war with US hits six months

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi (centre) visiting an art exhibition dedicated to the victims of Minab School, which was destroyed in a US attack at the beginning of the war, in Tehran, on Aug 28.

Israel kills Hamas operative in rare West Bank air strike, military says

Israeli military forces carry the body of a Palestinian, following an Israeli military airstrike, in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 28, 2026. REUTERS/Mohammed Torokman

Syrian president names former commander of Kurdish-led force as adviser

SDF commander Mazloum Abdi delivers a speech during a celebration marking the centenary of the city of Qamishli, Syria, August 20, 2026. REUTERS/Orhan Qereman

Iran’s disfigured supreme leader remains invisible six months into an existential war

Questions over the condition and role of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei are growing increasingly fraught, with Iran facing critical decisions over a war that has set the Middle East aflame while trashing the country’s already fragile economy.

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