Middle East

Israel issued new evacuation orders for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip late on Sunday, forcing more families to flee, saying forces intended to act against militant group Hamas ...

Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, as Israel’s military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a larger attack, in one ...

Gaza ceasefire and hostage negotiators discussed new compromise proposals in Cairo on Saturday, seeking to bridge gaps between Israel and Hamas as the U.N. reported worsening humanitarian conditions, with ...

Israel’s military court has extended the house arrest of soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee until Sept. 4 but will allow the defence to hold a hearing on ...

Muawiya Sedeh, a 38 year-old father of five was at home in the West Bank village of Jeit when his house was torched by a band of Jewish settlers, some masked ...

A Greek-flagged tanker was adrift in the Red Sea on Wednesday after repeated attacks that started a fire on the vessel and caused the ship to lose power, the UK ...

U.S. President Joe Biden planned to talk by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday about ways to keep a potential Gaza ceasefire and hostages deal alive, ...

 Israel’s outgoing head of military intelligence took responsibility for his country’s failures to defend its border on Oct. 7 at his resignation ceremony on Wednesday. Major General Aharon Haliva, ...

Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion was adrift in the Red Sea on Wednesday after coming under multiple attacks, which sparked a fire on board, the UK maritime agency said. The vessel ...

Israel retrieved the bodies of six hostages from the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza, the military said on Tuesday, as negotiations continued in an effort to bring back more ...

An Israeli strike on Monday evening targeted a Hezbollah arms depot in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, the Israeli military said. The strike did not result in any fatalities, two ...

The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility on Monday for a bomb blast near a synagogue in Tel Aviv that Israeli police and the Shin Bet intelligence ...

In Gaza, a mother worries that her month-old son, Mohammed, could be infected with polio after the Palestinian health ministry confirmed the first case in the enclave on Friday, ending ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged Hamas to accept a U.S. bridging proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal after what he said was a “...

Egyptian Mohannad Abdelazeem, 35, doesn’t drink alcohol. But he does consume three or four cans per day of Moussy and Fayrouz – alcohol-free beers. Brewers including Carlsberg and Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI....

Three peacekeepers on patrol were “lightly injured” when an explosion occurred near their clearly marked U.N. vehicle in the village of Yarine in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti ...

Israeli strikes killed at least 21 people including six children in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian health authorities said, ahead of a visit to the region by U.S. Secretary of State ...

At least nine people were killed and five wounded by an Israeli strike on a residential building in Nabatieh city in southern Lebanon, state news agency NNA said on Saturday. ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for parties to the conflict in Gaza to provide concrete assurances guaranteeing humanitarian pauses in order for a polio vaccine campaign to ...

Gaza ceasefire talks in Doha were paused on Friday with negotiators to meet again next week seeking an agreement to end fighting between Israel and Hamas and free remaining hostages, ...

Dozens of Israeli settlers, some wearing masks, attacked a Palestinian village near the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, burning cars and killing at least one person, authorities ...

The number of companies that set up base in Abu Dhabi’s financial centre ADGM increased by 31 per cent in the first half of the year as the likes of ...

In Ain Ebel, a southern Lebanese village near the Israeli border, more than a thousand people gathered for a solemn procession to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on ...

A new round of Gaza ceasefire talks was underway in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday afternoon, an official briefed on the meeting told Reuters, with Israel’s spy chief ...