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What data reveal about the war’s progress

We analyse 1,615 distinct attacks, and more besides

Should the Gulf states join attacks on Iran?

A lack of trust in America and Israel, internal divisions and the risk of domest...

The Iran war may be about to escalate

Gulf states could join the conflict

Analysing Africa newsletter: The real meaning of the Ir...

John McDermott, our chief Africa correspondent, writes about the Middle East crisis

The Iran war has entered a new phase

Both sides have changed their tactics, our data analysis finds

Iran’s praetorian guard may leave the war diminished bu...

Even if it will struggle to rebuild its capabilities

The War Room newsletter: How the Iran war is escalating

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, explains that the conflict is intensifying i...

The War Room newsletter: A conflict Trump was ill-prepa...

There is no simple way to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, writes Shashank Joshi, ou...

Could special forces truly obliterate Iran’s nuclear pr...

Swiping the country’s uranium would require one of the largest raids in military...

What a second week of war will bring

The conflict is turning into a test of will between Iran and its adversaries

The Revolutionary Guards are taking over Iran

They now appear to run both the state and the war

Israel contemplates a ground invasion of Lebanon

That could wreck Lebanon’s chances of taking on Hizbullah itself

Israeli settlers are growing more violent in the West Bank

Since the war with Iran began, attacks against Palestinians have become more sys...

The War Room newsletter: Trump is scrambling for option...

“To end the war on current terms would look like defeat [for Trump] to most of t...

Binyamin Netanyahu is down—but not out

Ahead of an election due in October, a divided opposition and the war could hand...

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