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After 18 months of mourning, a Gaza son is found alive in an Israeli prison

A Gaza family’s nightmare ends after discovering their ‘martyred’ son alive in an Israeli prison.

Gaza mother Maha Abu Al-Shaar holds her phone displaying a photo of her son, Eid, as she cries with joy and sadness after discovery that he is alive in an Israeli prison, 18 months after being declared a martyr and missing. [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]

Syria’s Suwayda: A new hub for the multibillion-dollar Captagon trade?

Suwayda has emerged as a new Captagon hub in Syria, triggering Jordanian strikes and a regional security crisis.

A member of the security forces of Syria's new authorities empties a sack of Captagon into a ditch to burn them in a field near the Fourth Division's Security Bureau on the outskirts of Damascus on January 19, 2025. Many bases of Syria’s notorious Fourth Division, a military unit led by Maher al-Assad—the feared younger brother of ousted president Bashar al-Assad—now lie looted. But papers left strewn behind reveal how the man they called "The Master" and his cronies wallowed in immense wealth while some of their foot soldiers struggled to feed their families and even begged on the streets. Western governments long accused Maher and his entourage of turning Syria into a narco-state, flooding the Middle East with Captagon, an illegal stimulant used both as a party drug in the Gulf and to push migrant workers through punishingly long days in the gruelling heat. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

Israel threatens Gaza war resumption to force disarmament as ‘truce’ frays

Palestinian factions reject US-backed plans linking aid to weapons surrender, demanding clear political path forward.

A heavily armoured Israeli soldier sits on their tank near the Gaza Strip, menacing gogglesm tank gun and helmet against a blue sky

Tunisia’s jailed opposition leader Ghannouchi rushed to hospital

Jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi is rushed to hospital, as his party demands his immediate release.

Rached Ghannouchi

How Hezbollah’s fibre optic drones test Israel’s sophisticated radar system

Immune to jamming and invisible to radar, the low-cost drones are piercing through Israel’s multibillion-dollar systems.

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Life in limbo: How Iranians navigate a state of ‘no war, no peace’

Tehran’s residents are living through a fragile truce and deep economic uncertainty.

Despite a fragile truce, daily life in Tehran's commercial districts masks an underlying anxiety over the possibility of renewed conflict.

Who is Ali al-Zaidi, the businessman named as Iraq’s PM-designate?

Political outsider Ali al-Zaidi is tapped as Iraq’s new PM to break a months-long political deadlock.

Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi attends the meeting of the Coordination Framework political bloc in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 27, 2026. (Iraqi Presidency Office via AP)

Born during Israel’s genocide: Gaza’s child survivors bear the scars of war

Gaza’s youngest survivors face lifelong disabilities from toxic gas and burns as the healthcare system collapses.

Two-year-old infant wears a facial pressure mask.

‘State of war’: Why Israel has escalated attacks in Gaza

Israel escalates attacks and expands control in Gaza Strip, sidelining the new US-backed technocratic administration.

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‘Solutions, not slogans’: Gaza holds first election in 21 years

Deir el-Balah holds Gaza’s first local election in 21 years amid war ruins, with residents demanding real solutions.

Election campaign banners showing candidates for the upcoming municipal elections hang on a building in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip