Julian Borger

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin issued a joint condemnation of “irresponsible” US foreign policy on Wednesday, warning of “a drift back to the law of the jungle”.

The top diplomat from the Board of Peace has blamed Hamas for the stalled ceasefire , but critics have said the US-backed board's lack of even-handedness in implementing the truce risks a return to war.

Conflict and cuts in funding have left World Food Programme ‘taking from the hungry to feed the starving’

Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has given orders to the Israeli army to seize control of 70% of the Gaza Strip in a move that threatens to torpedo

US embassy in Sarajevo made threat after European states refused to back its preferred High Representative candidate

Israel and Iran have exchanged direct strikes for first time since ceasefire began in April, raising fears of return to full-scale regional war. Nosheen Iqbal speaks to senior international correspondent Julian Borger

Recent exchange of missiles between Iran and Israel highlights diverging views between US president and Israeli PM

Amid rhetoric, market uncertainty and tit-for-tit exchanges, the two sides are still trying to find a way out of the impasse

Inherent ambiguities could yet derail signing, with Trump so far achieving none of his stated goals of the war

US embassy in Sarajevo made threat after European states refused to back its preferred High Representative candidate A deepening US-European rift over the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina has broken open with a dispute over a top administrative post, leading to a US threat to “reconsider” its role in international peacekeeping.The American embassy in Sarajevo issued the threat after European states refused to back the US preferred candidate to become the new High Representative for the internati