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Adla Massoud

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Adla Massoud is The National’s New York and United Nations correspondent, where she reports on diplomacy, politics and the Middle East’s shifting conflicts. Also a documentary filmmaker, she was recognised in 2022 by the Arab Film and Media Institute as one of six “Rising Arab Women in Filmmaking.”
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Smoke from the fire at the Tehran Oil Refinery covers the skyline of the Iranian capital on Sunday, March 8, 2026. AFP
Iran rejects unconditional ceasefire and vows to fight until war ends

Abbas Araghchi demands that US and Israel 'explain why they started this aggression'

USMarch 08, 2026
Mazlum Haftan, a commander in the Kurdish-Iranian Kurdistan Free Life Party, near the Iraqi border with Iran. AFP
Iran's armed Kurdish groups are a potential ground force against Tehran

Factions regarded as most organised part of country's otherwise fragmented opposition

USMarch 05, 2026
Bahrain's UN ambassador Jamal Fares Alrowaiei speaks on behalf of the GCC countries during a Security Council meeting in New York. Bloomberg
Gulf states condemn Iran's 'cowardly' attacks at UN Security Council

Iran calls US-Israeli strikes a 'war crime' and 'crime against humanity'

USFebruary 28, 2026
Fighters with the insurgent group Hayat Tahrir patrol in the city of Homs on January 22, 2025. Getty Images
UN Security Council removes Al Nusra Front and Hayat Tahrir from sanctions list

Move follows the delisting in November of Syria’s President Ahmad Al Shara

USFebruary 27, 2026
A Pakistani soldier stands guard in a bunker at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman. AFP
How can the Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict be defused?

US President Donald Trump signals openness to getting involved

USFebruary 27, 2026
Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour. AFP
Palestinian UN envoy withdraws bid for General Assembly presidency

Letter to current president says decision made due to 'prevailing conditions in Palestine'

MENAFebruary 26, 2026
Cindy McCain pictured in 2023, the year she took on the leadership of the World Food Programme. AFP
Cindy McCain to step down as head of UN World Food Programme for health reasons

Widow of senator John McCain suffered mild stroke in October

USFebruary 26, 2026
Anna Evstigneeva, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, attends an emergency special session of the UN General Assembly on Ukraine. Photo: UN Photo
UN General Assembly backs resolution for lasting peace in Ukraine but US abstains

Washington objected to text reaffirming 'strong commitment to sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine'

USFebruary 24, 2026
Outside the US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
US orders non-emergency staff to leave Beirut embassy

Move comes amid heightened tension between Washington and Tehran

USFebruary 23, 2026
US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee in Jerusalem in May 2025. EPA
US ambassador Huckabee says Israel has 'biblical right' to land from Euphrates to Nile

'It would be fine if they took it all,' ambassador says of Israel's claims on the Middle East

USFebruary 20, 2026
The Russian corvette Stoikiy, right, during a joint naval exercise with Iran in the Sea of Oman on February 19. EPA
Iran tells UN it will respond decisively to any military aggression

Letter to Secretary General warns all US bases and assets would be 'legitimate targets'

USFebruary 19, 2026
Then Palestinian delegate to France, Leila Shahid, in November 2006, at the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris. AFP
Pioneering Palestinian diplomat Leila Shahid dies aged 76

Beirut-born diplomat hailed as 'model of diplomacy committed to values of freedom, justice and peace'

MENAFebruary 18, 2026
Displaced Palestinians mourn at the funeral of those killed in an overnight Israeli strike, in Khan Younis, Gaza, on February 15. AFP
UN warns Gaza 'not at peace' as West Bank faces 'serious risk of explosion'

Warnings come before Trump's Board of Peace meeting in Washington

MENAFebruary 18, 2026
Eastern Libya's chief of staff of the armed forces, Lt Gen Khaled Haftar, during an international conference on strategic security in Benghazi on February 10, 2026. AFP
Libya is deteriorating on many fronts, says UN

UN official urges Libyan leaders to refrain from 'escalatory measures'

USFebruary 18, 2026
The UN Security Council in New York. AFP
Is UN having second thoughts about Trump's Board of Peace?

As the board looks to expand, some at the UN are worried Washington is trying to sideline the world body

USFebruary 18, 2026
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