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      Lizzie Porter

      Lizzie Porter

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      Lizzie Porter is The National's Istanbul correspondent. She has been a foreign correspondent for nearly a decade, and was previously based in Beirut and Baghdad. She covers diplomacy, politics, conflicts and crises in Turkey and across the Middle East, and has won multiple awards for her reporting on topics ranging from missing persons in Iraq to the region's climate crises. A native English speaker, she also speaks fluent French, Arabic and Farsi. Her Turkish is improving.
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      Brett McGurk, left, has travelled to Israel to discuss a Gaza ceasefire, while Amos Hochstein will focus on a Lebanon ceasefire. AFP
      US envoys in Egypt and Israel to drive Lebanon and Gaza ceasefires

      US proposal suggests an initial 60-day cessation of hostilities and increasing the number of Lebanese forces

      MENAOctober 31, 2024
      Michael Ofer-Ziv, 29, and Max Kresch, 28, are among a growing number of Israeli reservists and soldiers refusing to serve unless Benjamin Netanyahu's government makes a drastic change in the course of the war. Photos: Michael Ofer-Ziv handout / Yuval Green
      ‘The disregard of Palestinian lives was so strong’: the Israeli soldiers refusing to fight

      The Israeli government's failure to free hostages and the killing of civilians in Gaza is leading to more Israeli soldiers questioning the war

      MENAOctober 26, 2024
      Smoke rises from the headquarters of Turkey's aviation company Tusas near Kahramankazan, where four people were killed and 14 wounded in an attack blamed on the PKK on October 23, 2024. Reuters
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      Ankara attack by PKK comes in period of calm in Turkey

      Shooting and bombing at defence company is a shift away from assaults against civilians or security forces

      MENAOctober 23, 2024
      A heavily-armed suspect enters the Turkish aerospace and defence company Tusas in Ankara. EPA
      Turkey says Kurdish militants main suspects in deadly attack on defence firm

      Interior Minister said two attackers dead after incident at aerospace company Tusas

      NewsOctober 23, 2024
      Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meet in Jerusalem. EPA
      Blinken and Netanyahu discuss 'new path forward' for Gaza

      On his 11th visit to the region since the October 7 attacks, US Secretary of State says Israel should capitalise on the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to bring hostages home

      MENAOctober 22, 2024
      A composite image of Hamas leader Yahya Al Sinwar and Israel's Chief Pathologist Chen Kugel. EPA/AFP
      Sinwar was in good health when killed despite year on the run, pathologist says

      Doctor entrusted with carrying out post-mortem tells The National that Hamas leader had eaten well

      MENAOctober 19, 2024
      Palestinians surge forward to receive meals from a charity kitchen in northern Gaza, as supplies of aid plunge. Reuters
      Palestinian Authority says it is working to increase Gaza aid

      Mohammad Mustafa acknowledges issues with distribution of supplies and calls for better security for humanitarian teams

      MENAOctober 18, 2024
      Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza city, in 2021. EPA
      Killing of Yahya Sinwar plays on hopes and fears of Israelis and Palestinians

      Uncertainty over whether death of Hamas leader might end war in Gaza and allow return of hostages, or spur Israel to increase attacks

      MENAOctober 17, 2024
      Smoke rises from the Lebanese village of Khiam during Israeli bombardment. AFP
      Children of Israel-backed militia members oppose reoccupation of Lebanon

      Offspring of former members of the now-defunct South Lebanon Army are against both Israeli and Hezbollah presence in the border area

      MENAOctober 17, 2024
      Security at the entrance to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) offices in Jerusalem. EPA
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      'We'll enter with helicopters': Israeli official threatens Jerusalem UNRWA offices

      Israeli government orders Palestinian refugee agency to leave compound as part of plan to build settler houses

      MENAOctober 14, 2024
      People injured in the drone attack on the Israeli military base were taken to hospital on helicopters. Reuters
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      Four Israeli soldiers killed in Hezbollah drone attack on army base

      Israeli ambulance service declares 'mass casualty event' after deadliest attack by Lebanese group in past year

      MENAOctober 14, 2024
      Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli air strike on a crowded tent camp housing the displaced in Muwasi, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 10, 2024. AP
      'These scars will last for a very long time': How the Middle East changed in a year

      The war in Gaza and Lebanon has changed the region's geopolitics and the lives of its people

      MENAOctober 05, 2024
      Cinili Hammam in Istanbul's Uskudar district has been serving bathers since 1640. Halil Taskin / The National
      Postcard from IstanbulLocal hammams find favour as tourists soak up gentrified bathhouses

      Prices at many of the city's famous bathhouses are out of reach for most residents but a few remain open to all

      MENAOctober 04, 2024
      An anti-Israel billboard depicting people, among them Israeli soldiers, running away from an explosion and reading 'We will take revenge from where you imagine and not' hangs from a building in Palestine Square in Tehran. EPA
      ExclusiveIs the Iran-led militant 'unity front' against Israel still united?

      The Middle East militias’ joint command, formed at the start of Gaza’s war, appears weakened following Israel's escalation against Hezbollah

      MENASeptember 26, 2024
      Protesters in Istanbul hold portraits of Narin Guran, eight, whose body was found 19 days after she went missing from her home in Turkey's Diyarbakir province last month. AFP
      Eight-year-old Turkish girl was strangled, postmortem exam shows

      Body was discovered stuffed in a sack and dumped in a river in south-east of country

      MENASeptember 23, 2024
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