Middle East

Negotiators were meeting in Qatar on Tuesday hoping to finalise a plan to end the war in Gaza, after U.S. President Joe Biden indicated a ceasefire and hostage release ...

Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, won enough support to become Lebanon’s next prime minister after a majority of lawmakers backed him for the post ...

Israel posted a budget deficit of 19.2 billion shekels ($5.2 billion) in December, the Finance Ministry said on Monday, citing high expenses to finance the wars with the Palestinian Islamist militant group ...

By Daren Butler, Ece Toksabay, Umit Ozdal Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria ...

A top level Israeli security delegation arrived in Qatar on Sunday for talks on a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, in ...

European foreign ministers will meet at the end of January to discuss the lifting of sanctions on Syria, the EU foreign policy chief said on Sunday in Riyadh ahead of ...

Foreign ministers and top diplomats from Western and Middle Eastern countries are meeting Syria’s new foreign minister in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday at the first such regional ...

Turkish officials will tell U.S. Under Secretary of State John Bass during talks in Ankara this week that Syria needs to be rid of terrorist groups to achieve stability ...

Israeli military strikes across Gaza killed at least 27 people on Wednesday, Palestinian medics said, as international mediators stepped up efforts to seal a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal between Israel ...

Lebanon’s parliament will try to elect a president on Thursday, with officials seeing better chances of success in a political landscape shaken by Israel’s war with Hezbollah and ...

Three Israelis were killed on Monday and several injured in a shooting attack on a car and bus near the town of Kedumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israel’s ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Syria’s new leadership is determined to root out separatists there, as Ankara said its military had “neutralised” 32 members of the outlawed ...

By Riham Alkousaa Syria’s finance minister said on Sunday the government would hike salaries for many public sector employees by 400% next month after completing an administrative restructuring of ministries ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas Israeli airstrikes killed at least 14 Palestinians in three separate attacks in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, taking the weekend death toll to 102, Palestinian ...

By Nayera Abdallah, Menna AlaaElDin and Andrew Mills Syria’s new Islamist rulers said on Sunday that U.S. sanctions on Syria were an obstacle to the war-torn country’s ...

The administration of President Joe Biden has notified Congress of a proposed $8 billion arms sale to Israel, a U.S. official said on Friday, with Washington maintaining support for its ...

An Israeli military strike killed 12 people in a house in Gaza City early on Saturday, bringing the death toll from strikes across Gaza to 65 over the last day, Palestinian medics ...

Israel on Friday defended its raid on a north Gaza hospital last week while the U.N. human rights chief called the justification unsubstantiated and the World Health Organization urged ...

Israel carried out air strikes on dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza over the past 24 hours, it said on Friday, in attacks that Palestinian health authorities said had killed nearly 100 ...

Syria’s foreign and defence ministers met with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in Riyadh on Thursday in a landmark first visit abroad by members of the new ...

An Israeli hostage held by Gaza’s Islamic Jihad militant group has tried to take his own life, the spokesperson for the movement’s armed wing said in a video ...

Saudi Arabia executed six Iranian nationals for drug smuggling, state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday, prompting Tehran to summon the Saudi ambassador according to media reports. The Saudi interior ...

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families in the southern Gaza strip early on Thursday, medics said. The 10 people, including women and children, ...

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday issued what he called a final warning to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants to halt missile attacks on Israel, saying they ...