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Oliver Marsden
Familiar fear grips Lebanese villagers living in the firing line
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Isabel Coles
How Trump brought Netanyahu’s longtime dream of Iran’s destruction within reach
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Isabel Coles
Inside Dimona: the secret nuclear site at the heart of Israel’s undeclared arsenal
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Ceri Thomas
Bringing Iran to ‘Goldilocks’ point underpins the rationale behind this war
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Isabel Coles
Iranian missiles harden Israeli support for war
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Oliver Marsden
Israel–Hezbollah strikes hit Beirut as Middle East war spreads
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Sanam Mahloudji
You can’t bomb Iran into democracy
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Ruth Michaelson
The attack on Ali Khamenei analysed
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Keir Starmer joins Europe in split with US over Iran airstrikes
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Avraham Burg
I won’t remain silent on this cynical war
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Sara Weissel
Israelis head from synagogues to bomb shelters
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Ruth Michaelson
Trump vows ‘hour of freedom is at hand’ but opponents of Iranian regime fear only chaos will follow
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Ruth Michaelson
Ayatollah dead after US and Israeli attacks on Iran
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week – Israel: A Personal History by Göran Rosenberg
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Kenan Malik
When free speech becomes weaponised, everybody loses
Sat 20 Dec 2025
Steve Bloomfield
They call it peace, but in storm-tossed Gaza, it looks like purgatory
Mon 15 Dec 2025
Megan Clement
Eurovision finally faces its Waterloo as four nations quit in protest at Israel’s inclusion
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Steve Biddulph
Israel will have to address its self-inflicted PTSD
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Ruth Michaelson
Marwan Barghouti’s fate may rest in Trump’s hands
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Ruth Michaelson
For one militia leader, rebuilding Gaza could mean big business
Sat 25 Oct 2025
Ruth Michaelson
‘There is still no ceasefire in the West Bank’
Thu 23 Oct 2025
Ruth Michaelson
Tommy Robinson receives warm reception in Tel Aviv
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Philip Collins
The police made a mistake. Starmer is right to wade in
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Kenan Malik
Without a two-state solution, what hope is there?
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Peter Hain
What Gaza and Israel can learn from Northern Ireland
Sat 18 Oct 2025
Ruth Michaelson
Netanyahu to escape a reckoning for 7 October failures
Sat 18 Oct 2025
Oliver Marsden
Tears, relief, fresh bruises – Palestinian prisoners return
Tue 14 Oct 2025
Philip Collins
Trump’s speech to the Knesset, decoded
Mon 13 Oct 2025
Dahlia Scheindlin
‘We’re not going back to 6 October’
Mon 13 Oct 2025
Ruth Michaelson
As living hostages return, a long wait begins for the dead
Mon 13 Oct 2025
Stephen Armstrong
A widow’s plea for the return of her husband’s body
Sun 12 Oct 2025
Steve Bloomfield
The burden of hope
Sun 12 Oct 2025
In pictures: 7 October 2023 to 12 October 2025
Sun 12 Oct 2025
The Observer leader
The ceasefire must become a lasting peace
Sun 12 Oct 2025
James Rubin
I worked on a Gaza peace plan with Blair
Sat 11 Oct 2025
Daniella Peled
I want the hostages home – but what comes next?
Fri 10 Oct 2025
Ruth Michaelson
Hope for Gaza at last, but deep-rooted challenges remain
Thu 9 Oct 2025
Etgar Keret
There seems to be no end to this murderous routine
Tue 7 Oct 2025
Avraham Burg
The day that never ended
Tue 7 Oct 2025
Chloe Hadjimatheou
Is Marwan Barghouti Palestine’s next leader?
Mon 22 Sept 2025
Isabel Coles
In the West Bank, statehood feels increasingly impossible
Sun 21 Sept 2025
Ruth Michaelson
Sondos’ choice: face Israel’s bombs or flee and lose her home
Sun 14 Sept 2025
Isabel Coles
Netanyahu faces tough battle at home
Sun 14 Sept 2025
Bernard Gray
Israel’s strike on Qatar dispels any belief that it is focused on peace
Fri 12 Sept 2025
Isabel Coles
As protests hit TV, Israelis can't look away from plight of Gaza
Sun 17 Aug 2025
Sharone Lifschitz
Family of hostages call decision to annex Gaza ‘profoundly disturbing’
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Matthew Bishop
Norway’s wealth fund ordered to review investments in Israel
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Oliver Marsden
Gaza is starving despite Israel’s denials
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Dahlia Scheindlin
Israelis find slogans are not enough to end Gaza hell
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Steve Bloomfield
The diplomatic scales are tilting towards recognition for Palestine
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Alex de Waal
Those who cover up famine in Gaza use a familiar playbook
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Ruth Michaelson
‘In Gaza, $2,000 won’t even buy two weeks’ bread’
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Catherine Neilan
More Gazan children will come to UK for treatment
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Fred Harter
US diplomat’s comments are reminder of Israel’s other front
Tue 22 Jul 2025
Oliver Marsden
Hezbollah must decide: disarm, fight on or turn fully to politics
Sun 20 Jul 2025
Dalia Hatuqa
‘Rafah proposal masks plan for mass deportation’
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Ruth Michaelson
Live in confinement, or leave for ever: Israel’s grim offer to Gazans
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Peter Pomerantsev
Trump’s feel-bad foreign policy is guided by emotion, not logic
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Fred Harter
The history of now: Israel and Iran
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Philippe Sands
International law does not permit regime change in Iran
Sun 22 Jun 2025
The Observer leader
The Observer view: Iran’s Berlin moment
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Dr Lina Khatib
The UK needs to prepare for regime change in Tehran
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Rana Rahimpour
‘We don’t want Israel or the US handing us freedom on a drone.’ Tehran reacts to strikes
Thu 19 Jun 2025
David Aaronovitch
An ‘easy target’? Killing the ayatollah would be almost unprecedented
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Fred Harter
Israel says Iran was months from a nuclear weapon. Others aren’t so sure
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Dear Keir: grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Jude Rogers
Q&A: Hannah Bourne-Taylor, conservationist, 38
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Rebecca Fallon
An all-nighter at 'the most depraved and beautiful movie theatre in London'
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Tobias Jones
‘He was our grandfather’: crowds throng Rome for Francis’s final farewell
Sun 27 Apr 2025
James Tapper
Tributes pour in for Virginia Giuffre, a ‘light for survivors’
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Sarah Crompton
A 'radically odd' version of Daphnis and Chloé
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
There’s no courting king Donald
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Martha Gill
Ketamine is helping gen Z to detach itself from reality
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
There’s no courting king Donald
Sat 26 Apr 2025
The big picture
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Sarah Perry: ‘I look back, and see dresses behind me as if I had shed them as I walked’
Sat 26 Apr 2025
David Taylor
Who killed Just Stop Oil?
Sat 26 Apr 2025
David Sedaris
David Sedaris: After I've long gone, will my niece sell me out to AI?
Sat 26 Apr 2025
David Baddiel
David Baddiel’s 13-course Sunday lunch
Fri 25 Apr 2025
