Middle East

A clock in a Tel Aviv square that became a rallying point for Israelis demanding the release of hostages taken during the October 2023 Hamas attack will be turned off on ...

Turkey’s foreign minister met Hamas officials in Ankara on Monday and discussed the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and humanitarian conditions in the enclave, a Turkish ...

Israel has recovered the remains of the last remaining hostage held in Gaza, the military said on Monday, fulfilling a key condition of the initial phase of US President Donald ...

Israel will reopen Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt for the passage of people only after an operation to locate the body of the last remaining Israeli hostage in the ...

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were in Israel on Saturday to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, mainly to discuss Gaza, two people briefed on the ...

By Mireille Rebeiz and Josiane Yazbeck More than a year after a ceasefire nominally ended active fighting, much of southern Lebanon bears the ecological scars of war. Avocado orchards are ...

Saudi Arabia’s National Infrastructure Fund and Humain, the kingdom’s artificial intelligence company, announced a financing agreement of up to $1.2 billion this week to support the expansion of AI ...

The UN rights body condemned Iran on Friday for rights abuses and mandated an investigation into a recent crackdown on anti-government protests that killed thousands of people. “I call on ...

As Israel moved the blocks marking its armistice line with Hamas deeper into one Gaza neighbourhood in December, it destroyed dozens of buildings and displaced Palestinians in violation of a ...

By Dawoud Abu Alkas, Catherine Cartier, Edward Carron and Rami Ayyub As Israel moved the blocks marking its armistice line with Hamas deeper into one Gaza neighbourhood in December, it ...

Syria’s government said a drone strike by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces killed seven of its soldiers on Wednesday, though the SDF denied this, in an incident that threatens ...

Israeli fire killed 11 Palestinians, including two boys and three journalists, in Gaza on Wednesday, local medics said, and the Israeli military said it had “eliminated” a Palestinian militant who posed ...

Israel demolished structures inside the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency’s East Jerusalem compound on Tuesday after seizing the site last year, in an act condemned by the agency as ...

Syrian government troops tightened their grip on Monday across a swathe of northern and eastern territory after it was abruptly abandoned by Kurdish forces in a dramatic shift that has ...

The Trump administration wants nations to pay $1 billion to stay on his peace board, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing a draft charter. U.S. President Donald Trump would serve ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has been invited to join the Gaza Board of Peace, according to reports on Saturday. The Cyprus News Agency reported that Christodoulides has taken receipt of a ...

The White House on Friday announced some members of a so-called “Board of Peace” that is to supervise the temporary governance of Gaza, which has been under a fragile ceasefire ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday blamed President Donald Trump for weeks of demonstrations that rights groups said have led to more than 3,000 deaths. “We consider the ...

More than 3,000 people have died in Iran’s nationwide protests, rights activists said on Saturday, while a “very slight rise” in internet activity was reported in the country after an ...

Iran’s deadly crackdown appears to have broadly quelled protests for now, according to a rights group and residents, as state media reported more arrests on Friday in the shadow ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had been told that killings in Iran’s crackdown on protests were easing and that he believed there was no current plan for ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face voters this year for the first time since the 2023 Hamas attack shook his security credentials, with the outcome of the latest crisis in ...

The United States is withdrawing some personnel from bases in the Middle East, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, after a senior Iranian official said Tehran had warned neighbours ...

Dozens of commercial ships have dropped anchor at a distance outside Iran’s port limits in recent days, according to data and shipping sources, as tensions with the United States ...