Middle East

Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed on Friday to re-establish relations after years of hostility that had threatened stability and security in the Gulf and helped fuel conflicts in the Middle ...

A Palestinian gunman opened fire in Tel Aviv on Thursday, wounding three people before being killed by police in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu labelled a “terror attack” amid ...

The United States is concerned that escalating tensions in the West Bank could distract Israel and the United States’ attention from Iranian activities, a U.S. official said, a message ...

To mark International Women’s Day, thousands of Israeli women formed human chains on Wednesday to protest the right-wing Israeli government’s planned judicial overhaul that would drastically limit the ...

Israeli forces on Tuesday raided a refugee camp in the volatile West Bank city of Jenin, killing at least six Palestinians, including a gunman suspected of shooting two brothers from ...

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in the West Bank village of Huwara overnight on Monday, the scene of a violent rampage last week by dozens of settlers seeking revenge for the ...

Syria’s transport ministry said on Tuesday it would re-route flights carrying earthquake aid following an overnight Israeli aerial attack that put Aleppo International Airport out of commission. The attack ...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday said a compromise in the government’s judicial overhaul plan could be imminent even as protests against the reform continued to spread. Local media ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Sunday to soften international outcry over a call by a far-right member of his cabinet for a flashpoint Palestinian village to be “erased”, ...

Saudi Arabia has launched 192 billion riyals ($51.2 billion) of investments led by local companies, including oil giant Aramco (2222.SE), SABIC (2010.SE) and Ma’aden (1211.SE), under a government-backed initiative, state news ...

Hungarian President Katalin Novak said on Friday that no decision had yet been made on whether Budapest would move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem next month despite an Israeli ...

The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on firms it said had transported or sold Iranian petroleum or petrochemical products in violation of U.S. restrictions, including two companies based ...

Israeli police fired stun grenades and scuffles broke out in Tel Aviv on Wednesday during a nationwide “day of disruption”, raising the intensity of weeks of protests against a contentious ...

Switzerland’s financial regulator has investigated 12 banks and launched enforcement proceedings against two of them in relation to corruption charges against longtime central banker Riad Salameh, it said on Monday. ...

Israel on Monday deployed extra troops in the occupied West Bank after a Palestinian gunman shot dead two Israelis and a Palestinian was killed when Jewish settlers rampaged through a ...

Jordan hosted a meeting between top Israeli and Palestinian officials on Sunday to try to halt surging violence, an official said, as Washington and its Arab allies seek to defuse ...

Gaza militants fired rockets and Israel carried out air strikes across the Israel-Gaza frontier on Thursday, a day after 11 Palestinian were killed during an Israeli raid in the occupied West ...

Saudi Arabia will make a $1 billion deposit in Yemen’s Aden-based central bank on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia’s state news agency SPA said, as the government there struggles with a ...

Israeli troops killed 11 Palestinians, including at least four gunmen and four civilians, and wounded over 100 others during a raid on a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, ...

Brent oil fell on Tuesday as concern about a global economic slowdown that would reduce demand prompted investors to take profits on the previous day’s gains, outweighing supply curbs. ...

The U.N. Security Council issued a formal statement on Monday denouncing Israel’s plan to expand settlements on occupied Palestinian territory, the first action the United States has allowed ...

An Israeli rocket strike early on Sunday hit a building in central Damascus‘s Kafr Sousa neighbourhood near a large, heavily guarded security complex close to Iranian installations, killing five ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan held talks with the United States in Munich on Saturday, the first meeting between the leaders of the South Caucasus nations since October amid heightened tensions over ...

The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) on Saturday pressured authorities in northwestern Syria to stop blocking access to the area as it seeks to help hundreds of thousands ...