April
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel has a fateful choice to make: Rafah or Riyadh?
If Israel ends up with an indefinite occupation of both Gaza and the West Bank, it would be a toxic military, economic and moral overstretch that would delight Iran.
- Thomas Friedman
In Israel, resignation that the killings are not over
A visit to Israel by one of Australia’s leading writers reveals a shattered society under no illusions about its much-criticised war against Hamas.
- Gideon Haigh
Israel provided no evidence of UNRWA terrorism claim: review
More than a dozen countries, including Australia, suspended funding to the aid group. Now an independent review commissioned by the UN has found Israel offered no evidence to support its allegations.
- Cassandra Vinograd and Patrick Kingsley
Israel’s spy chief resigns over ‘black day’
The departure will increase pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the October 7 attacks, considered the worst security failure in Israel’s history.
- Tia Goldenberg
Israel scaled back planned attack on Iran to avoid war
Israeli leaders originally discussed bombarding several military targets across Iran last week, including near the capital Tehran, in retaliation for the Iranian strike on April 13.
- Ronen Bergman and Patrick Kingsley
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Cashed-up Ukraine is front line of push against ‘axis of adversaries’
The Western alliance is playing a potentially deadly mind game with Russia, China, Iran and North Korea – deploying military force to prevent a wider war.
- Gideon Rachman
Israeli strikes on southern Rafah kill 13, mostly children
Israel has carried out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has sought refuge from fighting elsewhere.
- Mohammad Jahjouh and Samy Magdy
Israel’s strike on Iran shows it can evade Tehran’s air defences
The strike damaged a defensive battery near Natanz, a city in central Iran that is crucial to the country’s nuclear weapons program.
- Farnaz Fassihi, Ronen Bergman, Eric Schmitt and Luis Ferré-Sadurní
ASX to bounce as Middle East stand-off appears to ease
The rise would go some way to walking back the worst week in six months, but attention is back on crucial inflation data that will point the way on rates.
- Joshua Peach
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Appeasing Iran has proven weak and provocative
If Tehran’s power can be contained and then reduced, the Middle East will be a much more peaceful place.
- Alexander Downer
- Opinion
- Global economy
Markets are a frog in boiling water on Iran-Israel
The latest round of Iran-Israel hostilities has crossed many lines and durably raised the geopolitical temperature in the region. Yet markets seem keen to brush this aside.
- Mohamed El-Erian
Huge blast at Iranian-backed military base in Iraq
Security sources said the blast was a result of an unknown airstrike, which happened around midnight Friday (Saturday AEST).
- Reuters
Three missiles at dawn: How Israel’s raid unfolded
The retaliatory action appears to have been very limited in scope and calculated to avoid escalating the regional tensions into a wider war.
- Rozina Sabur, Sophia Yan and Akhtar Makoii
Soviet-era tech and 1970s US jets: inside Iran’s ageing air defences
Tehran’s air defence systems would struggle to stand up to a substantial aerial bombardment on the scale it launched last weekend.
- Updated
- Joe Barnes
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel’s strike exposes Iran’s fatal weakness
The strike is a profound humiliation for the ayatollahs who just days ago said they would deliver punishing retaliation for even the slightest Israeli attack.
- Colonel Richard Kemp
Markets spooked after Israel launches retaliatory strike on Iran
Australian stocks fell to a three-month low while gold and oil surged after Israel reportedly launched a retaliatory strike on Iran, fuelling fears of a widening Middle East war.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett, Joshua Peach and Michael Read
Tehran signals no retaliation against Israel after drones attack Iran
The limited scale of the attack and Iran’s muted response appeared to signal a successful effort by diplomats to avert all-out war.
- Parisa Hafezi and James Mackenzie
Blasts put focus on Iran’s top secret ‘nuclear energy mountain’
The explosions heard near the Iranian province of Isfahan put global attention on the secret uranium enrichment facility at Natanz.
- Sophia Yan
‘At the end of the day, we’re Aussies’: Assyrians assess church attack
For Sydney’s tight-knit Assyrian community, Monday’s terrorist attack in a church was confronting and triggering for a long-persecuted people.
- Max Mason
Shares fall and gold, oil surge after reports of attack on Iran
Shares and commodities whipsawed on Friday, after reports of a missile attack on Iran sent ripples through global markets.
- Joshua Peach, Tom Richardson and Joanne Tran