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Tit-for-tat: Tel-Aviv after an airstrike from Iran last week.

Iran is not Venezuela

It is easier to start wars than to end them

Under fire: The cargo ship Mayuree Naree was attacked near the Strait of Hormuz. The Thai-flagged ship had
departed Khalifa Port in the UAE on 11 March before coming under attack. Photo: Ae Pek

SA warns of economic shock as Iran war expands

Iranian retaliation and Israeli air strikes are spreading across Gulf states and Lebanon, rattling energy markets and exposing deep divisions at the United Nations

Global village: The Middle East crisis is no longer just a remote conflagration, South Africa is also affected by this distant geopolitical drama. Photo:
fair.org

Middle East conflict reaches SA’s doorstep

President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Africans in Israel to cross the land border into Jordan — one of the few remaining safe exit routes

António Guterres: European Commission (Christophe Licoppe)

António Guterrers, the man for our time

The secretary general of the United Nations is committed to peace, yet Israel in its war on Gaza and beyond chose to ban him

A poster in the Iranian capital Tehran of Hamas political chief Yahya Sinwar on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel says Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar has been killed in Gaza

US President Joe Biden said Sinwar’s death marked “a good day” for Israel, America, and the world

A woman mourns the people killed and kidnapped on 7 October 2023 in Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israel marks first anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attack

The attack claimed more than 1 200 lives, while more than 41 000 people, the majority civilians, have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza

Damaged cars in the Dahieh district of southern Beirut, Lebanon, on September 21, 2024, after an Israeli strike. (Photo by Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel hits Beirut again in second day of strikes

Hezbollah and its arch-foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted last October

A man rides his moped past a billboard bearing portraits of slain leaders, Ismail Haniyeh of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Iranian Quds Force chief Qasem Soleimani, and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr on the main road near the Beirut International Airport on August 3, 2024. (Photo by Ibrahim AMRO / AFP)

Foreign nationals told to leave Lebanon amid rising regional tensions, fears of war

Saudi Arabia and France are the latest of several countries calling on their citizens to leave

Protesters hold a banner calling for an end to the bombing of Gaza and Yemen during the demonstration. Thousands of people marched in solidarity with Palestine in Central London, calling for a ceasefire as the Israel-Hamas war continues. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Davos: World screams as ‘great reset’ fades

Global security has deteriorated markedly, just as countries need to be able to count on one another to avoid a deeper crisis

A Palestinian demonstrator kicks a flaming tyre towards Iraeli security forces (not pictured) in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on October 18, 2023, during protests following a strike which ripped through a Gaza hospital compound. (Photo by HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images)

Hamas and Hezbollah: how they are different and why they might cooperate against Israel

If Hezbollah is activated by Iran, its involvement would likely open up a regional war

The game allows for a series of different battles

Lebanon’s Hezbollah launches Syrian war video game

The first-person shooter game is a low-cost spinoff of bestseller "Call of Duty" that glorifies the group’s battles in the ongoing Syrian conflict.

Hezbollah members carry mock rockets next to a poster of the group’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Two Lebanese brothers in court for Hezbollah drone export case

​Two Lebanese citizens are expected to appear in court for allegedly illegally exporting components of drones to Hezbollah in Lebanon

The massive case

SA links in US-Hezbollah illegal exporting case

According to US court documents, dollars were said to have been transferred to SA company bank accounts for the apparent purchasing of the items

Emirates Airline suffered a plane malfunction that warranted an emergency landing on Wednesday

Tunisia airline row: UAE ‘political miscalculation’?

UAE’s move to ban Tunisian women from Emirates flights reflects tense relations between the two countries, experts say.

In Beirut, fear and anger don’t stop life going on

South Beirut has endured a series of suicide bombings over the past two years in response to Hezbollah’s forceful intervention in Syria.

Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants display the bodies of four ‘enemy’ soldiers killed in combat in Kismayo

SA an attractive destination for terrorism funding networks

Lawlessness, government corruption and a range of financing methods make SA ideal for terrorism financing networks, and likely protect it from attack.

Saudi Arabia to give Lebanese army $3bn

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has indicated that the grant is likely to be spent partly on weapons from France as a counterweight to Hezbollah.

Rockets fired from Lebanon trigger Israeli shelling

Rockets fired from Lebanon have struck northern Israel and triggered retaliatory artillery fire.

The resolution

Syria opposition rejects peace talks

Syria’s opposition coalition has said it will not engage in international peace talks while Hezbollah backs President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon.

UN troubled by militant Hezbollah group’s role in Syria

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon says he is "deeply concerned" by Hezbollah’s growing role in Syria’s civil war.