Middle East

On a searing summer day, Israeli settlers splashed in a West Bank pool created by siphoning off water that had irrigated Palestinian crops, one of many seizures of water resources ...

The United States said that it could maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely and would ratchet up economic pressure on Tehran as ceasefire talks have floundered, global oil supply ...

The Strait of Hormuz is “under Iran’s control and management”, the recently appointed head of Iran’s Basij paramilitary unit said on Thursday, a day after U.S. President ...

Iran’s state media has mocked U.S. President Donald Trump after new details emerged about his secret aircraft switch during a visit to Turkey, saying it showed just how ...

An Israeli airstrike critically wounded a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip, in an attack the Israeli military said targeted a Hamas commander planning attacks against Israeli troops operating in ...

Iran and the United States remain at loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior Iranian source who said there ...

Israel and Lebanon have agreed on Britain, Italy, Switzerland and Indonesia as potential contributors to a proposed mechanism that could see foreign troops deployed to Lebanon to verify Hezbollah’s ...

Six people were killed and 10 injured after Yemen’s Iran backed Houthis attacked a cargo ship in the Red Sea, according to Yemen’s internationally recognised government, in what appeared ...

Israeli agents visited Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility “many times” to gather information about the site, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said on Tuesday, without specifying when the visits took ...

Russia and Syria have reached an agreement on the future of Moscow’s military bases in the country, with the deal expected to strengthen bilateral relations, Russia’s Foreign Ministry ...

Israel’s Foreign Ministry accused Turkey of hypocrisy over its criticism of Israeli military operations, pointing to Turkey’s control of 36 per cent of Cyprus and its military presence in ...

The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the US changes its behaviour and accepts Iran’s conditions for ending the war, Iran’s newly appointed secretary of the Supreme ...

Three crew members were killed in a suspected attack by Iran-backed Houthis on a small cargo vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Tuesday while a container ship was hit ...

A Syrian court sentenced ousted leader Bashar al-Assad to death on Tuesday after a trial in absentia, convicting him of crimes including killings, torture, and arbitrary arrest during the country’...

Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell to six on Monday, compared ​with a 10-day average of about 11 vessels, ‌shipping data showed, amid fading hopes of a peace deal ...

Cyprus and Bahrain are seeking to expand cooperation in defence, shipping and investment, Ambassador to Bahrain Andreas Eliades said on Monday, as Nicosia looks to strengthen its role between the ...

Israel has received the INS Drakon, a new German built submarine valued at about €550 million, as the country continues to expand its naval capabilities, with the delivery reported on Monday. ...

US President Donald Trump on Monday demanded that Iran pay compensation for the deaths of people he said it had killed in wars, attacks and protests, raising tensions with Tehran ...

Iran said it was nearing a final pact with Oman defining new shipping lanes between them through the Strait of Hormuz but repeated that the U.S. must meet other ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu restated his rejection of Donald Trump’s latest Gaza plan in televised remarks to his right-wing government on Sunday, even as Israel’s military has ...

Iran said on Saturday that a deal with Oman on control of the Strait of Hormuz was close but would not be enough to free up the waterway, and the ...

Cyprus will provide €150,000 to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem towards the restoration of the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza, which was partially destroyed during an Israeli bombardment in October 2023. ...

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday, wedding Sunni Muslim U.S. allies alarmed at a regional conflagration that has rained missile fire ...

Saudi Arabia expects imminent coordinated attacks from Iraqi militias north of the Gulf state and from Yemen’s Houthis from the south under the supervision of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary ...