Middle East

Maha Nassar President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US should “take over” Gaza, displace its current population and turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East” is ...

Saudi Arabia’s non-oil business sector expanded at its strongest pace in just over a decade in January, driven by a surge in new orders and robust business activity, a ...

Hamas accused Israel on Friday of breaching their ceasefire accord and it delayed announcing the names of three more Israeli hostages due to be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners in the ...

The United States has set a “red line” that Shi’ite armed group Hezbollah should not be a member of Lebanon’s next government after itr military defeat by Israel ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Israel and Arab states in mid-February, a State Department official said, making his first trip to the Middle East after a widely ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday Israel would hand over Gaza to the United States after fighting was over and the enclave’s population was already resettled elsewhere, ...

Israel’s defence minister ordered the army on Thursday to prepare a plan to allow the “voluntary departure” of residents from Gaza, Israeli media said, after President Trump drew widespread ...

President Donald Trump’s top aides staunchly defended his push to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza and have the US take over the war-ruined enclave, but they also backed away ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to take over war-ruined Gaza and create a “Riviera of the Middle East” after resettling Palestinians elsewhere has shattered U.S. ...

When Benjamin Netanyahu meets U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister is expected to try to turn the page on sometimes tense relations with the Biden ...

A gunman opened fire on Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, setting off a gunfight that caused multiple casualties before the shooter was killed by Israeli soldiers, ...

A car bomb killed at least 15 people in the Syrian city of Manbij on Monday, the second attack there in three days and Syria’s deadliest since Bashar al-Assad was ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Israel on Sunday for a meeting with US President Donald Trump that he hopes will reset relations with Washington after tensions with the previous administration ...

Arab foreign ministers on Saturday rejected the transfer of Palestinians from their land under any circumstances, presenting a unified stance against U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for Egypt ...

The drone that tracked Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and filmed him as he lay dying in footage beamed around the world last October was made by Israeli startup Xtend, according ...

Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released in exchange, in the latest stage of a truce aimed ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday demanded that 2,500 children be immediately evacuated from Gaza for medical treatment after meeting with U.S. doctors who said the children were at ...

Syria’s new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country’s broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers and privatising state-run ...

Hamas freed three Israeli and five Thai hostages in Gaza on Thursday and Israel began releasing 110 Palestinian prisoners after delaying the process in anger at the swarming crowds at one ...

Palestinian militants began handing over three Israeli hostages in Gaza on Thursday in return for 110 Palestinian prisoners to be freed in the latest stage of a ceasefire deal. A female ...

Cypriot representatives at the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Wednesday expressed their support for the ceasefire found in Gaza after over a year of violence in ...

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia may raise crude prices for Asian buyers in March to their highest in more than a year after benchmark prices spiked on higher demand from ...

Some of the hostages released from Gaza so far during the ceasefire had been held in Hamas tunnels for up to eight months straight, deprived of daylight and with little ...

Tens of thousands of Palestinians began moving along the main roads leading north in Gaza on Monday as Israel opened roadblocks after the militant group Hamas agreed to hand over ...