Middle East news - breaking news, video, headlines and opinion | CNN

CNN values your feedback

1. How relevant is this ad to you?
2. Did you encounter any technical issues?
Thank You!
Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much appreciated.
Close
Ad Feedback
World
Africa
Americas
Asia
Australia
China
Europe
India
Middle East
United Kingdom
More
Africa Americas Asia Australia China Europe India Middle East United Kingdom
Watch Listen Live TV
My Account
  • Settings
  • Newsletters
  • Topics you follow
  • Sign out
Your CNN account Sign in to your CNN account
My Account
  • Settings
  • Newsletters
  • Topics you follow
  • Sign out
Your CNN account Sign in to your CNN account
Live TV Listen Watch
Edition
US
International
Arabic
Español
Edition
  • US
  • International
  • Arabic
  • Español
Africa
Americas
Asia
Australia
China
Europe
India
Middle East
United Kingdom
Follow CNN
  • World
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia
    • Australia
    • China
    • Europe
    • India
    • Middle East
    • United Kingdom
  • US Politics
    • Trump
    • Facts First
    • CNN Polls
    • 2026 Elections Calendar
    • Redistricting Tracker
  • Business
    • Tech
    • Media
    • Calculators
    • Videos
  • Markets
    • Pre-markets
    • After-Hours
    • Fear & Greed
    • Investing
    • Markets Now
    • Nightcap
  • Health
    • Life, But Better
    • Fitness
    • Food
    • Sleep
    • Mindfulness
    • Relationships
  • Entertainment
    • Movies
    • Television
    • Celebrity
  • Tech
    • Innovate
    • Foreseeable Future
    • Mission: Ahead
    • Work Transformed
    • Innovative Cities
  • Style
    • Arts
    • Design
    • Fashion
    • Architecture
    • Luxury
    • Beauty
    • Video
  • Travel
    • Destinations
    • Food & Drink
    • Stay
    • News
    • Videos
  • Sports
    • Football
    • Tennis
    • Golf
    • Motorsport
    • US Sports
    • Olympics
    • Climbing
    • Esports
    • Hockey
  • Science
    • Space
    • Life
    • Unearthed
  • Climate
    • Solutions
    • Weather
  • Weather
    • Video
    • Climate
  • Winter Olympics 2026
  • Ukraine-Russia War
  • Israel-Hamas War
  • Features
    • As Equals
    • Call to Earth
    • Freedom Project
    • Impact Your World
    • Inside Africa
    • CNN Heroes
  • Watch
    • Live TV
    • Featured
    • CNN Fast
    • Shows A-Z
    • CNN10
    • CNN TV Schedules
  • Listen
    • CNN 5 Things
    • Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
    • The Assignment with Audie Cornish
    • One Thing
    • Tug of War
    • CNN Political Briefing
    • The Axe Files
    • All There Is with Anderson Cooper
    • All CNN Audio podcasts
  • Games
    • Daily Crossword
    • Jumble Crossword
    • Photo Shuffle
    • Sudoblock
    • Sudoku
    • 5 Things Quiz
  • About CNN
    • Photos
    • Investigations
    • CNN Profiles
    • CNN Leadership
    • CNN Newsletters
    • Work for CNN

Middle East

  • Ambulances wait in line at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Monday.
    AFP/Getty Images
    Gaza-Egypt border reopens nearly two years after Israel closed it, official says
  • 116807_AragchiTrump.00_04_55_26.Still001.jpg
    CNN
    Iran’s top diplomat hopeful for negotiations even amid US military buildup
  • RAFAH, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 1: Ambulances and medical teams affiliated with the Egyptian Ministry of Health arrive at the Rafah Border Crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border, standing by to enter Gaza to provide humanitarian aid and medical support if the crossing is opened, in Rafah, Egypt, on February 1, 2026. The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has been reopened as part of a âpilot operation❠after nearly two years of closure, according to Israeli media on Sunday morning. The paper said that Palestinians who left Gaza during the Israeli war will only be allowed to return to the enclave through the terminal. No official statements were immediately issued by Israeli, Egyptian, or Palestinian authorities regarding the report. (Photo by Ahmed Sayed/Anadolu via Getty Images)
    Ahmed Sayed/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Gaza’s Rafah crossing partially reopens after nearly 2 years of closure
  • The blast ripped through a building in the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas.
    Fars News Agency/Telegram
    Blast rips through building in Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, state media says
  • Rescuers carry the body of a victim amid the debris of Sheikh Radwan police station in Gaza City on Saturday, following an Israeli air strike.
    Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images
    Israeli strikes kill over 30 in Gaza, health ministry says, in deadliest day in months
  • Sailors fuel an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean on January 21, 2026, in this photo provided by the U.S. Navy.
    Seaman Daniel Kimmelman/AP
    US conducts military drills in Middle East as tension with Iran builds amid Trump’s demands
  • Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village, West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
    Mahmoud Illean/AP
    ‘We are reliving the Nakba’: A Palestinian community says it’s being erased as Israeli settler violence intensifies
  • Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki leaves after casting his ballot in the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Baghdad on November 11, 2025.
    Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images/File
    Trump warns against Nouri al-Maliki’s return as prime minister of Iraq
Ad Feedback
  • U.S. Navy Capt. Daniel Keeler, commanding officer of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), prepares to fly an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 71 on Jan. 23, 2026. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. Units assigned to 7th Fleet conduct regular Indo-Pacific patrols to deter aggression, strengthen alliances and partnerships, and advance peace through strength. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman)
    Seaman Daniel Kimmelman/US Navy
    US carrier strike group is now in the Middle East region, sources say
  • Women wearing the niqab stroll through Al-Roj detention center in northeastern Syria, which is guarded by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
    CNN
    ‘Utterly Stateless’: Inside a detention camp for ISIS-linked women and children amid escalating uncertainty in Syria
  • Palestinian Yussef al-Zawarah, 42, and his wife Asma, 37, hold each other as they collect the body of their son Mohammed, after he was killed by Israeli fire along with his cousin in Gaza City.
    Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images
    Boys collecting firewood in Gaza killed by Israeli fire
  • Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran's Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities, and included economic slogans, to political and anti-government ones. (Photo by MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
    MAHSA/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images
    The night Iran went dark: Witness accounts and video reveal violence inflicted during Iran’s internet blackout
  • Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, speaks during the Board of Peace signing ceremony at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026.
    Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg/Getty Images
    180 skyscrapers for Gaza: Trump’s son-in-law Kushner unveils ‘masterplan’ for enclave’s reconstruction
  • A photograph shows machinery demolishing a structure inside the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on January 20, 2026. Israeli bulldozers began demolitions at the headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem on January 20, in what the organisation called an "unprecedented attack". The compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem has been empty of UNRWA staff since January 2025, when a law banning its operations took effect after a months-long battle over its work in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by ILIA YEFIMOVICH / AFP via Getty Images)
    Ilia Yefimovich/AFP/Getty Images
    Israel starts demolishing UN agency headquarters in East Jerusalem after ban
Ad Feedback
  • This aerial photo taken from a helicopter shows al-Asad Air Base in the western Anbar desert of Iraq on December 29, 2019.
    Nasser Nasser/AP/File
    Iraq announces full withdrawal of US forces from its federal territory
  • Syria’s military has seized swaths of Kurdish-held territory. Here’s what we know.
  • Iran’s supreme leader acknowledges thousands were killed in protests
  • Detained Iranian protester in good physical health after execution fears, family and rights group say
  • Commuters drive along a street in Tehran on January 15, 2026. A protest movement across Iran, initially sparked by economic grievances, has turned into one of the biggest challenges yet to the clerical leadership since it took power in 1979. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)
    • Video 2:43
    Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images
    Video Iran streets calmer after weeks of unrest 2:43
  • Major Middle East powers urge Trump not to attack Iran as US moves some personnel from key base
  • Execution of Iranian protester Erfan Soltani postponed, family says, as Trump claims ‘killing has stopped’
  • The weapons the US could employ in any new strike on Iran
Ad Feedback
Ad Feedback
My Account
  • Settings
  • Newsletters
  • Topics you follow
  • Sign out
Your CNN account Sign in to your CNN account
Live TV Listen Watch
  • World
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia
    • Australia
    • China
    • Europe
    • India
    • Middle East
    • United Kingdom
  • US Politics
    • Trump
    • Facts First
    • CNN Polls
    • 2026 Elections Calendar
    • Redistricting Tracker
  • Business
    • Tech
    • Media
    • Calculators
    • Videos
  • Markets
    • Pre-markets
    • After-Hours
    • Fear & Greed
    • Investing
    • Markets Now
    • Nightcap
  • Health
    • Life, But Better
    • Fitness
    • Food
    • Sleep
    • Mindfulness
    • Relationships
  • Entertainment
    • Movies
    • Television
    • Celebrity
  • Tech
    • Innovate
    • Foreseeable Future
    • Mission: Ahead
    • Work Transformed
    • Innovative Cities
  • Style
    • Arts
    • Design
    • Fashion
    • Architecture
    • Luxury
    • Beauty
    • Video
  • Travel
    • Destinations
    • Food & Drink
    • Stay
    • News
    • Videos
  • Sports
    • Football
    • Tennis
    • Golf
    • Motorsport
    • US Sports
    • Olympics
    • Climbing
    • Esports
    • Hockey
  • Science
    • Space
    • Life
    • Unearthed
  • Climate
    • Solutions
    • Weather
  • Weather
    • Video
    • Climate
  • Winter Olympics 2026
  • Ukraine-Russia War
  • Israel-Hamas War
  • Features
    • As Equals
    • Call to Earth
    • Freedom Project
    • Impact Your World
    • Inside Africa
    • CNN Heroes
  • Watch
    • Live TV
    • Featured
    • CNN Headlines
    • Shows A-Z
    • CNN10
    • CNN TV Schedules
  • Listen
    • CNN 5 Things
    • Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
    • The Assignment with Audie Cornish
    • One Thing
    • Tug of War
    • CNN Political Briefing
    • The Axe Files
    • All There Is with Anderson Cooper
    • All CNN Audio podcasts
  • Games
    • Daily Crossword
    • Jumble Crossword
    • Photo Shuffle
    • Sudoblock
    • Sudoku
    • 5 Things Quiz
  • About CNN
    • Photos
    • Investigations
    • CNN Profiles
    • CNN Leadership
    • CNN Newsletters
    • Work for CNN
World
Watch Listen Live TV
My Account
  • Settings
  • Newsletters
  • Topics you follow
  • Sign out
Your CNN account Sign in to your CNN account
Follow CNN
Download the CNN app
Download the CNN app
Terms of Use Privacy Policy Ad Choices Accessibility & CC About Newsletters Transcripts

© 2026 Cable News Network. A Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All Rights Reserved.
CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.

Download the CNN app

Scan the QR code to download the CNN app on Google Play.

Scan the QR code to download the CNN app from Google Play.

Download the CNN app

Scan the QR code to download the CNN app from the Apple Store.

Scan the QR code to download the CNN app from the Apple Store.