Middle East

Like thousands of other Palestinians in Gaza, Hind Al-Nawajha takes a dangerous, miles-long journey every day to try to get some food for her family, hoping she makes it back ...

Thousands of people converged on Cyprus on Thursday as the island became a transport hub, both for Israelis attempting to return to the country, and for others attempting to flee ...

Turkey has stepped up security on its border with Iran since the start of Tehran’s conflict with Israel, but has not yet seen any increase in people trying to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a phone call on Thursday during which both leaders condemned Israel for its strikes on Iran and agreed de-escalation was ...

A top U.S. official visiting the Lebanese capital on Thursday discouraged Tehran-backed armed group Hezbollah from intervening in the war between Iran and Israel, saying it would be a “...

Israel bombed nuclear targets in Iran on Thursday and Iran fired missiles and drones at Israel after hitting an Israeli hospital overnight, as a week-old air war escalated with no ...

Russia is telling the United States not to strike Iran because it would radically destabilise the Middle East, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday, and Moscow said ...

Israeli gunfire and strikes killed at least 140 people across Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said, as some Palestinians in the strip said their plight was being forgotten ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected Donald Trump’s demand for unconditional surrender on Wednesday, and the US president said his patience had run out, though he gave no ...

Iran said it had conveyed to Washington that it will respond firmly to the United States if it becomes directly involved in Israel’s military campaign, the Iranian ambassador to ...

Iran and Israel launched new missile strikes at each other on Wednesday as the air war between the two longtime enemies entered a sixth day despite a call from U....

When his phone started pinging persistently at 4 a.m. on Friday, the chief rabbi of Cyprus learnt that war had broken out between Israel and Iran. By the time he ...

Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cuts an increasingly lonely figure. Khamenei has seen his main military and security advisers killed by Israeli air strikes, leaving major holes ...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” and warned that U.S. patience was wearing thin, but said there was no intention to kill Iran’...

Israeli tank shellfire killed at least 51 Palestinians on Tuesday as they awaited aid trucks in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the territory’s health ministry said, adding that ...

The United Kingdom’s bases in Cyprus are “hugely important at this time”, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Monday night, amid an escalating conflict between Iran and Israel. ...

Israeli fire killed at least 50 people on Monday, nearly half of them near an aid distribution site run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the territory’s Health ...

Residents of the Gaza Strip have circulated images of wrecked buildings and charred vehicles hit by Iranian missiles in Israeli cities, and some were hopeful the wider conflict could eventually ...

 An Israeli strike hit Iran’s state broadcaster on Monday while the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog indicated extensive damage to Iran’s biggest uranium enrichment plant and ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Sunday night said the seriousness of the situation in the Middle East “does not allow for frivolous statements”. Her words come after the Iranian government ...

Iran’s foreign ministry’s spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei on Sunday denied that his country had asked Cyprus to convey a message to Israel. Baghaei was quoted by news agency Reuters ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday told leaders of countries in the region of an “immediate need for de-escalation”, amid a deepening conflict between Iran and Israel. He had spoken about ...

Israel’s El Al Airlines has cancelled flights to and from many European cities as well as Tokyo and Moscow until June 23 owing to the conflict between Israel and Iran, ...

The United Kingdom could potentially support Israel in its conflict with Iran, but the decision to send additional military jets to the Middle East was made mainly to protect British ...