Middle East

Spanish state broadcaster RTVE’s board voted on Tuesday to withdraw from the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in May in Vienna if Israel takes part in the event. ...

A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had incited these acts. ...

Israel announced the start of its long-awaited ground operation into Gaza City on Tuesday, declaring “Gaza is burning”. An Israeli military official said the Israeli Defence Forces had begun the ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he did not rule out further strikes on Hamas leaders “wherever they are”, as the heads of Arab and Islamic states held a summit ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he didn’t rule out further strikes on Hamas leaders “wherever they are” as the heads of Arab and Islamic states held a summit ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday held a telephone call with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and said after the call that he had “stressed the importance to deescalate tensions”. He said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said he had held a “pertinent discussion” with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, days after the country was the target of an ...

Palestinians in the relatively unscathed Nasser area of Gaza City were having to decide whether to stay or go on Thursday after the Israeli military dropped leaflets warning that troops ...

Israel struck the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the northern province of al-Jawf on Wednesday, with the Houthi health ministry saying it killed 35 people and wounded 131 others. The strikes are the ...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived for talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Downing Street on Wednesday in what is likely to be a tense meeting, with both leaders ...

The families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza said they were fearful for the fate of their loved ones after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to launch strikes on ...

If Israel failed to kill Hamas leaders in an air strike on Qatar on Tuesday, it would succeed next time, the Israeli ambassador to the United States said after the ...

After pro-Palestinian protesters forced a premature end to yet another stage of the Vuelta a Espana on Tuesday, race director Javier Guillen said the intention is to finish the race ...

President Donald Trump said Israel’s decision to strike Qatar was made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and not by the Republican leader who added that a unilateral attack on ...

Israel launched an airstrike against arch foe Hamas leaders in Qatar on Tuesday, expanding military actions that have ranged across the Middle East to include the Gulf Arab state where ...

Palestinians living in the ruins of Gaza City were bombarded with Israeli leaflets on Tuesday ordering them out, after Israel said it was about to obliterate the area in an ...

The United Nations human rights chief condemned Israel on Monday for “mass killing” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and “hindering of sufficient lifesaving aid”, saying the country had a case ...

Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in what police described as “a terrorist attack,” one of the ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday suggested a Gaza deal could come soon to secure the release of all the hostages held by Hamas, after earlier issuing what he called his “...

By Alexander Cornwell, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Michelle Nichols There is a “narrow window” to prevent famine from spreading further in Gaza, a top U.N. official said on Sunday, calling ...

Israel’s Airports Authority said on Sunday that a drone launched from Yemen struck the arrivals hall at Ramon Airport near the Red Sea city of Eilat. It said takeoffs ...

By Alexander Cornwell and Nidal al-Mughrabi Israel again called on Hamas to surrender on Sunday, as the military carried out strikes on Gaza’s largest urban centre where hundreds of ...

The Israeli military said early on Saturday it was establishing a humanitarian zone in the Al-Mawasi area of Gaza’s Khan Younis, as it plans to expand military activities in ...

The 1,200 tonnes of humanitarian aid which arrived at the Israeli port of Ashdod last week after having been sent from Cyprus earlier in the month has arrived in the Gaza ...