Middle East

Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines (MEA) said on Sunday it had delayed the departures of some incoming flights set to land in Beirut overnight to arrive on Monday morning instead. ...

 Thousands of mourners attended funeral ceremonies on Sunday for the 12 children and teenagers killed by a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as Israel vowed swift retaliation against the ...

Nicosia condemned on Sunday the attack on the Majdal Shams soccer field causing the tragic death of civilians, including children. In a post on X, Cyprus’ foreign ministry said that ...

Israeli aircraft carried out attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon overnight, the Israeli military said on Sunday, after a rocket that it said the group fired at a soccer pitch killed 12 ...

The White House will offer deportation relief and work permits to an estimated 11,500 Lebanese nationals already in the U.S., due to conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, ...

The World Health Organisation is sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children being infected after the virus was ...

The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Thursday urged Israel to revoke its decision to outlaw the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), calling ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Kremlin, the president’s press service said on Thursday. “I am very interested in your opinion on how the ...

Israeli forces recovered late Wednesday the bodies of five hostages killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and held in Gaza since, the Israeli military said. Maya Goren, a 56-year-old kindergarden teacher, ...

Protesters demanding the U.S. stop military aid to Israel hoisted Palestinian flags and burnt American ones outside Washington’s Union Station in demonstrations against a visit on Wednesday by ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be greeted by deep divisions among U.S. lawmakers, a distracted U.S. public and large protests on Wednesday as he addresses the U....

Grid Telecom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO), and Dawiyat Integrated, a telecommunications arm of Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), this week signed a Memorandum of ...

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday there was a high risk of the polio virus spreading across the Gaza Strip and beyond its borders due to the dire health ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told families of hostages held in Gaza that a deal that would secure their release could be near, his office said on Tuesday, as fighting ...

Israel will be the United States’ strongest ally in the Middle East regardless of who is elected president in November, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday before flying to ...

Israeli strikes killed at least 16 Palestinians in eastern areas of Khan Younis, Gaza health officials said on Monday, shortly after Israel issued new orders to evacuate some neighbourhoods after what ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi Israeli forces battled Palestinian fighters in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday, and struck areas in the centre of the coastal enclave where thousands of ...

Israeli forces pounded several areas across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 30 Palestinians, according to health officials, as tanks advanced deeper into western and northern Rafah. Among those ...

The United Nations’ highest court said on Friday that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are illegal and should be withdrawn as soon as possible, in its ...

A long-range Iranian-made drone hit the centre of Tel Aviv in the early hours of Friday in an attack claimed by the Yemen-based Houthi militia that killed one man and ...

The United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday warned that “anarchy” was spreading in the Gaza Strip, with rampant looting, unlawful killings and shootings as the population faces an ...

U.S. President Joe Biden expects to be able to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week depending on his recovery from COVID-19, the White House said on Thursday. ...

Israeli forces bombarded the Gaza Strip’s historic refugee camps in the centre of the enclave and struck Gaza City in the north on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, and ...

Israel must be banned from any football-related activities for violating FIFA’s statutes amid the war in Gaza, according to an independent legal analysis by lawyers who specialise in international ...