Middle East

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Iran and its regional proxies will not back down from Israel hours after an Israeli attack on Beirut that is thought ...

Israeli strikes sealed off Lebanon’s main border crossing with Syria early on Friday, hours after an intense Israeli attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs that is thought to have ...

U.S. President Joe Biden said he did not believe there is going to be an “all-out war” in the Middle East, as Israel weighs options for retaliation after Tehran’...

Food supplies to Gaza have fallen sharply in recent weeks because Israeli authorities have introduced a new customs rule on some humanitarian aid and are separately scaling down deliveries organized ...

Israel’s military urged residents of more than 20 towns in south Lebanon to evacuate their homes immediately on Thursday as it pressed on with incursions after suffering its worst losses ...

Iran views the Group of Seven (G7) condemnation of its attack on Israel as “biased and irresponsible”, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said in a statement on Thursday. Iran launched ...

Governments on Thursday were ramping up their preparations to assist their citizens in Lebanon who wished to depart the country. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced on Thursday that her ...

alestinians fear the crisis in Lebanon is diverting the world’s attention from Gaza, where Israeli strikes killed dozens more people this week, and diminishing already dim prospects for a ...

A consultant working for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has died from injuries sustained in an Israeli air attack on the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, Iran’s Student News Network ...

The European Commission announced on Thursday an extra €30 million ($33.1 million) in humanitarian aid for Lebanon, which has been hit by clashes between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah. “I am extremely ...

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani said on Thursday said the crisis in the Middle East is a “collective genocide” and that his country has always warned of ...

Israel’s military said it killed 15 Hezbollah militants in south Lebanon on Thursday and bombed Beirut after its forces suffered their deadliest day on the Lebanese front in a year ...

The north’s Gecitkale (Lefkoniko) air base “may be used” by the Turkish air force if tensions continue to rise in the Middle East, the north’s air traffic controllers’ ...

Group of Seven (G7) leaders expressed “strong concern” on Wednesday over the crisis in the Middle East but said a diplomatic solution was still viable and a region-wide conflict was ...

The United States warned Iran at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday against targeting it or Israel as U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the “deadly cycle of tit-for-tat ...

A 38-year-old Gazan, the only known fatality in Iran’s missile attack against Israel, was buried on Wednesday, witnesses said. Sameh Khadr Hassan Al-Asali had been staying in a Palestinian ...

The government is in talks with the leaders of neighbouring states, the EU and US over developments in the Middle East, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. In statements ahead ...

Around 100 Cypriots may be airlifted out of Lebanon within the day, it was reported on Wedensday, with a Greek C-130 expected to carry out the mission. Greek Defence Minister Nikos ...

The Iranian ballistic missile attack against Israel on Tuesday was larger, more complex and involved more advanced weapons than the strikes in April, experts say, putting greater stress on missile ...

Israel’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that he was barring U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from entering the country because he had not “unequivocally” condemned Iran’s missile attack ...

Rising tensions in the Middle East have created air travel chaos, with global airlines diverting or cancelling flights on Wednesday and regional airports, including Lebanon, Israel and Kuwait, showing long ...

Five out of ten flights diverted from the EU to Larnaca Airport, originally bound for Israel, resumed their departures on Wednesday. These flights had been rerouted from Tel Aviv due ...

Western nations are ramping up contingency plans to evacuate citizens from Lebanon after a sharp escalation in the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese armed movement Hezbollah, coupled with Iran’...

Danish police said on Wednesday they were investigating two blasts in the immediate vicinity of Israel’s embassy in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen. There were no injuries reported and ...