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Andrew England

Middle East Editor

Andrew England is the Middle East editor. He was previously MIddle East and Africa news editor. Prior to that, he spent 17 years based in the Middle East and Africa as a foreign correspondent. His posts included Southern Africa bureau chief, Abu Dhabi bureau chief and Middle East and North Africa correspondent.

He joined the Financial Times in 2004 as East Africa correspondent. Before joining the FT, he was East Africa correspondent for the Associated Press.

Email Andrew England @cornishft  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russia recruits Yemeni mercenaries to fight in Ukraine

    Mysterious Houthi-linked company duping men into joining Moscow’s war machine

    A screen grab from a video shows Yemeni mercenaries in Ukraine
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Iran
    Iran activates ‘new advanced centrifuges’ after nuclear watchdog’s rebuke

    Move follows resolution by International Atomic Energy Agency saying Tehran failed to co-operate with investigation

    Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    News in-depthLebanon
    The man who links Donald Trump with war-torn Lebanon

    Massad Boulos, father of Tiffany Trump’s husband Michael, has met Middle Eastern politicians in the US

    Massad Boulos
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Middle East looks to Saudi Arabia to rein in Trump

    Arab states hope close ties between Crown Prince Mohammed and US president-elect can temper ardent support for Israel

    US President Donald Trump is pictured as he prepares to board Air Force One in Riyadh in May 2017
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Starmer to visit Saudi Arabia and UAE to try to secure investment

    UK prime minister is seeking billions of pounds of Gulf money to boost British growth

    Keir Starmer and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Iran nuclear deal
    Iran discusses capping stocks of highly enriched uranium

    Talks with UN nuclear agency signal republic could be willing to make compromises on nuclear programme

    Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, with Iranian officials in front of the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant in Iran
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    US politics & policy
    US warns Turkey on hosting Hamas leadership

    Qatar no longer willing to host Palestinian militant group as Gaza ceasefire talks with Israel remain deadlocked

    People gather around the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike as rescuers search for casualties on al-Jalaa street in central Gaza City
  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    News in-depthUS-Iran tensions
    Trump team aims to bankrupt Iran with new ‘maximum pressure’ plan

    President-elect wants to force Tehran to drop its nuclear programme and stop funding regional proxies

    President-elect Donald Trump and Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Israel
    Far-right Israeli minister’s call to annex West Bank sparks outrage

    Diplomats including EU’s Josep Borrell say move would breach international law and threaten regional stability

    Bezalel Smotrich
  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Qatar suspends its mediation of Israel-Hamas talks

    Announcement by Gulf state reveals frustration about warring parties’ failure to agree an end to war in Gaza

    Israelis look on at northern Gaza from a viewpoint near the border on November 9
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Israel’s ‘long campaign’ to reshape the Middle East

    Buoyed by military gains, Benjamin Netanyahu now wants to dismantle Iran’s forces across the region

    Montage of Benjamin Netanyahu and destroyed buildings
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    What is left of Hamas?

    Israel believes it has shattered the group’s military force in Gaza but the remnants will be harder to destroy

    A montage showing an armed member of the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, Yahya Sinwar, and Jabaliya, northern Gaza in background
  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
    Middle East war
    The demolitions clearing Israel’s ‘first belt’ in Lebanon

    IDF decimates towns and villages within 3km of border as it fights Hizbollah

    A huge blast in the Lebanese village of Aitaroun
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    US draws up draft Israel-Lebanon ceasefire plan

    Proposal leaked as senior Washington officials head to Middle East in effort to end year-long conflict

    A building on fire following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the industrial zone in the southern Lebanese village of Abbasiyeh near Tyre on October 30
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Musk in funding talks with Middle East investors to value xAI at $45bn

    Early discussions include existing backers of artificial intelligence start-up

    Elon Musk appears on a large screen with the stage backdrop featuring the event's logo and a futuristic design
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Lebanese flee ancient city of Baalbek as Israel attacks

    IDF offensive against Hizbollah continues while US struggles to negotiate end to war

  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine and Russia in talks about halting strikes on energy plants

    Qatar-mediated discussions mark resumption of previous efforts abandoned after Kyiv’s invasion of Kursk region

    The operating room destroyed by a Russian missile attack at DTEK’s power plant in Ukraine
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel bill to restrict UN relief for Palestinians sparks ‘grave concern’

    Foreign ministers of seven major nations oppose draft legislation that could hobble UN aid agency UNRWA

    Palestinians receive food aid distributed by UNRWA
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Middle East awaits Iran’s move after Israeli air strikes shake Tehran

    With each escalation, the spectre of all-out war looms ever larger

  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel launches air strikes against Iran

    Israeli military says the retaliatory attack targeted missile manufacturing plants and air defences

    IDF Handout of the departure of the Air Force planes for the targeted attack on Iran
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    US and Israel to hold Gaza peace talks in Doha

    Washington in push for ceasefire ahead of presidential election next month

    Palestinians gather around the destroyed Maghazi camp services club building following an Israeli strike on the Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on October 24
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Macron seeks to reassert France’s role as Middle East power broker

    President calls for ceasefire between Israel and Hizbollah as Paris hosts conference on conflict

    Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Najib Mikati outside the Elysee Palace in Paris
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Satellite images show Israel bolstering defences on Syria border

    Digging of new trench in Israel-occupied Golan Heights comes as IDF prepares against potential threats from war-torn neighbour

    Satellite image showing a trench dug along the disputed border in the Golan Heights
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel pushes for expanded UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon

    Netanyahu government wants Unifil forces to patrol much larger area and carry out border inspections

    Members of the French contingent of Unifil stand at attention in uniform, wearing blue berets, during a ceremonial event
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel says it killed Hizbollah heir apparent in air strike

    Announcement comes hours after inconclusive talks between US secretary of state Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu

    Smoke rises from buildings at the site of an Israeli air strike near the city of Tyre, Lebanon, on Tuesday
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