The Iranian parliament ratified a 20-year strategic partnership treaty with Russia yesterday, state media reported, consolidating closer ties between the two countries amid growing tensions with the West.
Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike yesterday wounded nine people in the country’s south, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and militant group Hezbollah.
Iran and Azerbaijan have launched a joint special forces exercise, state media in the Islamic republic said yesterday, weeks after Iran’s president visited the neighbouring country.
Israeli strikes killed at least 130 Palestinians across Gaza overnight, health officials said yesterday, as Israel said talks with Hamas included a proposal to end the war but sources on both sides said there had been no progress in the talks.
Arab leaders meeting at a summit in Baghdad yesterday urged the international community to press for a Gaza ceasefire, as Israel launched an expanded military offensive in the Palestinian territory.
Israel and Hamas yesterday resumed ceasefire talks in Qatar, both sides said, even as Israeli forces ramped up a bombing campaign that has killed hundreds of people over 72 hours, and mobilised for a massive new ground assault.
Iraq backs the creation of an 'Arab fund to support reconstruction efforts' after crises in the region
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday accused Donald Trump of lying when the US president said during his Gulf tour this week that he wanted peace in the region.
UN’s Palestinian refugee agency has said half a million people are threatened by sewage flood amid Gaza’s rainy season, and cold temperatures will take a toll on thousands of malnourished people.
Israel’s security cabinet was preparing to decide whether to accept a proposed ceasefire in its war with Hezbollah, an official said yesterday, as the White House announced it believed a deal to end the fighting in Lebanon was “close”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the emerging ceasefire deal with Hezbollah "in principle" during a security consultation with Israeli officials on Sunday night, a source familiar with the matter said
Israel’s army said Hezbollah fired around 160 projectiles into its territory from Lebanon yesterday, with the group saying its attacks had targeted the Tel Aviv area and Israel’s south.
Five medics were killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon yesterday, the Lebanese health ministry said.
Israel’s military said yesterday it had killed two Hamas commanders, pressing its north Gaza offensive a day after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants over the offensive.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday praised the “courageous decision” of the International Criminal Court to seek the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant.
Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 120 Palestinians over the last 48 hours and hit a hospital on the northern edge of the enclave, wounding medical staff and damaging equipment, Palestinian medics said yesterday.
Lebanon said an Israeli air strike in the heart of Beirut that brought down a residential building and jolted residents across the city killed at least 15 people yesterday.
The Syrian defence ministry has said 36 people were killed and more than 50 wounded yesterday in Israeli air strikes on the oasis city of Palmyra, renowned for its ancient ruins.
