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Coverage · July · 2026 · 22,740 articles

Strait of Hormuz: How a 21-Mile Chokepoint Became the Centre of a US-Iran Showdown

Najaf fills for the man who made Iraq's Shia politics legible to Tehran

Strait of Hormuz back in the frame as tanker turn-backs expose a fragile accord

The procession that wasn't on the wire: a 12-hour silence in plain sight

Seven million in Karbala: the numbers Iraq's own state-aligned outlets are floating, and why that should give every reader pause

A Conscription Crisis Reopened: What Ukraine's Manhunt Tells Us About the War's Next Phase

Najaf's funeral rites and the choreography of an Iranian martyrdom

Najaf funeral draws millions as Iraq buries a martyr-state's chief — and signals Tehran's grip on the shrine city

Najaf's funeral and the framing war over Iran's leadership

A disposable camera, a Ukrainian fighter, and the slow turn toward presence over production

A Drone, a Base, and the Frame That Holds It Together

Budapest's Refusal Meets Brussels' Consensus: Orbán Is Out, Magyar Is In, and Hungary Just Redrew the Line on Ukraine

Rutte's Hague address lands as NATO summit text is finalised around a 'long-term Russia threat'

Poland picks up the cheque — and Trump wants the receipts

The Friday Accord: A Geneva Deal Reshapes the Iran File, and the Cracks Already Showing

Samsung's record profit meets a 6% slide: what South Korea's chip megabudget is up against

Karbala's streets and the rituals of grief: what Tasnim's footage does and does not tell us

NATO's Rutte calls US strikes on Iran 'absolutely necessary' as alliance moves to enshrine the Russia threat in summit text

South Korea's chip-supercluster gamble runs into a memory-cycle reality check

NATO in Ankara: A Burden-Sharing Argument Masquerading as a Strategy

Greenland, NATO, and the Danish line the alliance cannot afford to fudge

Nato allies commit £37bn to a new missile programme, convening in Ankara

A NATO summit lands in Ankara, and the bill finally arrives

A million mourners, one question: what comes after Khamenei?

The funeral that Iran staged for itself

From answer keys to a video-call thumbs-up: a snapshot of an Indian news week

Washington's two-step: OpenAI unlocked, Turkey unshackled — and what that signals about the next year of US foreign policy

BBC's daily World Cup quiz has readers guessing, and guessing again

A million mourners in Najaf and the message the West has been refusing to read

Khamenei's daily Quran pages are not theology — they are statecraft

Hormuz goes from leverage to liability: the new arithmetic of the Strait

Najaf crowds frame Iran's mourning as a regional referendum

Najaf's Million-Strong Farewell: Reading the Crowds at Khamenei's Funeral

Three stories this week show what "smart infrastructure" actually looks like — and who pays for it

China's industrial resilience meets a tariff-shaped headwind

Tankers turn back as US strikes Iran: a Hormuz crisis is back on the table

Greenland, drones and a $50bn tab: what the Ankara NATO summit actually delivered

Million-strong funeral in Karbala and the framing Tehran could not have staged

Pomp and grief in Najaf: a state funeral draws a regional crowd

A funeral in Najaf and the framing war over Iran's supreme leader

NATO summit opens under the shadow of two wars — and one question about Iran

Funeral of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei held in Najaf amid leadership transition

Iran buries Khamenei in Karbala as succession crisis reshapes the Islamic Republic

China's Governance Paradox: Death for a $325 Million Bribe, Rescue Teams for 100,000 Evacuees

Trump at the Ankara Summit: A Reordering of the Western Alliance, in Turkey

The Najaf farewell and the choreography of a martyrdom the Gulf cannot ignore

Two earthquakes and a new round of strikes: the news wires at midweek

Najaf hosts mass funeral for Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei as succession question opens

Strait of Hormuz Is the Line: US Strikes Iran After Tanker Campaign

'Pipes' and the Question of Who Sees a War: Karim Kassem's Lebanon at Karlovy Vary

Hegseth lands in Israel on first visit since taking office, with Iran and Gaza on the agenda

Trump's Greenland gambit and the NATO question: threat, leverage, or the start of something larger

Iraq's funeral cortège for Khamenei puts Najaf at the centre of a regional succession story

Trump's Second-Term Foreign-Policy Bazaar: NATO Money, Turkish Courts, Greenland Bets, and the Slow Auction of American Credibility

RSS registration fight lands in Karnataka: Priyank Kharge's challenge and the political logic behind it

Tehran Crosses at Bahrain and Kuwait as Interim Deal Teeters

The funeral that wasn't on the wires: what Najaf tells us about whose grief counts

Strait of Hormuz under fire: how an Iranian escalation in the world's busiest oil chokepoint dragged the United States into a third front

Iran Strikes Back at US Bases in Bahrain and Kuwait as Accord Deadline Looms

Maine Democrats Want Platner Out. The Party Still Has to Pick a Winner.

Iranian Missiles Target US Bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in Overnight Strikes

Explosions Reported Over Bahrain as Air Defences Activate in Early Hours of 8 July 2026

Second wave in an hour: Iran strikes Bahrain as air defences scramble over Manama

Najaf's Million-Strong Farewell: Reading Iran's 'Martyr' Stagecraft

Iraq hosts the funeral the Iranian state wants the world to remember

Najaf's million: reading the funeral that Iran's state media built

Najaf stages a funeral the world did not see coming

The funeral in Najaf, and the version of Iran that just died with him

Spain's World Cup run leans on a defence that hasn't blinked

A funeral in Najaf, and the framing wars it will not settle

Tehran's MQ-9 claim, Washington's silence: a probe that says something either way

The frame is the funeral: how Tehran is choreographing Khamenei's last rites — and what the choreography tells us

Baghdad's farewell and the reshaping of Shia politics

A martyr's cortege and the choreography of succession in Iran

Iran buries Khamenei in Najaf as the succession question moves from doctrine to street

Air defence activity over Kuwait revives questions about what Gulf airspace is now absorbing

Sirens in the Gulf: The Iran-US Deal Just Met Reality

Najaf's funeral cortège and the contested afterlife of an Iraqi cleric

Senegal's $50 million venture fund signals a quiet recalibration of African capital