Middle East crisis

A massive number of people gathers in Dhaka's Suhrawardy Udyan on Saturday, 12 April 2025 to join the "March for Gaza" rally protesting Israel's continued invasion of Gaza. Photo: Rajib Dhar
Bangladesh

In Photos: Sea of people flood Suhrawardy Udyan in solidarity with Gaza

People in the processions have been seen using red paint to symbolise the blood of those killed in Gaza and carrying symbolic dead bodies

Smoke and flames rise after an Israeli strike on a building in Tayouneh neighborhood, near a central park, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut, Lebanon, November 15, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Yassin
Middle East

Iran backs Lebanon in ceasefire talks, seeks end to 'problems'

File photo of Mohammad Nizam Uddin, a Bangladeshi migrant worker who was killed in an Israeli air strike in war-torn Lebanon's capital Beirut on Saturday, 2 November 2024. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Bangladeshi worker killed in Israeli strike on Lebanon

File photo of Mohammad Nizam Uddin, a Bangladeshi migrant worker who was killed in an Israeli air strike in war-torn Lebanon's capital Beirut on Saturday, 2 November 2024. Photo: Collected
Middle East

Israeli air strike kills Bangladeshi migrant worker in Lebanon

Hezbollah supporters carry flags and banners depicting Hezbollah senior official Sayyed Hashem Safieddine during a protest, after hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a blast at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon October 18, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
Middle East

Israel confirms death of heir apparent to slain Hezbollah leader

Flames and smoke rise form an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, 20 October 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Middle East

Israel says more strikes coming against Hezbollah-run financial institution

Infograph: TBS
Migration

How deepening Middle East crisis could impact labour market, RMG export

US President Joe Biden speaks on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in this White House handout image taken in the Oval Office in Washington, US, April 4, 2024. Photo: The White House/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Middle East

Biden, Netanyahu speak, Israel vows retaliation against Iran

Rockets are launched from Lebanon towards Israel, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel, October 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ayal Margolin
Middle East

Hezbollah targets Israeli troops on Lebanese border, sirens in Beirut

An aircraft flies over Beirut, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut, Lebanon October 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
Middle East

Airlines suspend flights as Middle East tensions rise

People look on, as smoke billows amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tyre, southern Lebanon, October 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Aziz Taher/File Photo
Middle East

Israel starts ground operations in southwest Lebanon as Iran delivers warning

Pump jacks operate at sunset in Midland, Texas, US, February 11, 2019. File Photo: Reuters/Nick Oxford
Global Economy

Oil retreats as investors pare bets on Middle East war risk after sharp rally

Photo: Bloomberg
Global Economy

Oil ‘Tourists’ pile into market amid biggest rally in two years