Middle East

Israel accused Turkey of “dangerous adventures in Syria” on Thursday, while Ankara called for a halt to “reckless” Israeli attacks, two days after Israel bombed a Syrian airbase where it ...

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Thursday said her country is “outraged” after the Israeli authorities elected not to pursue criminal proceedings against those responsible for the killing of seven ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday condemned remarks by far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir calling for Israel to kill “30 or 40” people “every night in Gaza” as “inhumane and ...

srael’s military will open internal investigations over its troops’ high-profile killings in Gaza of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in January 2024 and 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025, it ...

Turkey is ready to work with Damascus to look for oil and gas in Syria, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday. Turkish state oil company TPAO and private ...

An Israeli airstrike killed nine Palestinians at a police station in Gaza on Wednesday, medics said, two days after US envoy Jared Kushner ended a trip to the region that ...

Turkey firmly rejected on Wednesday what it called “untenable allegations” by Israel regarding its military position in Syria, after Israel bombed a Syrian air base near the Turkish border and ...

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed, data showed on Wednesday, as most shipowners avoided the key waterway because of a lack of clear signalling on its reopening from a ...

Saudi Aramco resumed oil loading from inside the Strait of Hormuz last week and has more tankers waiting to load as the state energy giant offers spot heavy crude cargoes, ...

Israel bombed an airbase in Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state media said, carrying out what appeared to be its first strike on Syrian government assets since March and drawing criticism ...

Oil prices rose for a third session on Tuesday as prospects receded for a deal to end the Middle East war, with Iran saying it would adopt a more offensive ...

Donald Trump’s envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner left Jerusalem on Monday without a breakthrough after two days of talks with Israeli and Hamas leaders over a stalled U.S. ...

At least nine people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday, Lebanon’s state news agency said. Seven people were killed when Israeli warplanes struck a house ...

Iran called on the U.S. to accept defeat while President Donald Trump blasted Tehran as “very evil” and told Americans to brace for continued high fuel prices as a ...

The United States wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly condemn a siege imposed by Jewish settlers in a Palestinian village, U.S. and Israeli officials said on Friday, ...

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 ...