Middle East

Israeli airstrikes killed at least three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, health officials said. One strike near Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza killed Basir Al-Bursh, the son ...

A large plume of smoke was visible near Riyadh’s main airport on Saturday after booms were heard and Saudi Arabia sent alerts overnight warning of potential danger around the ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed his “deepest regret” on Friday over the United States’ decision to deny Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a visa for the second consecutive year, blocking ...

Artists in Gaza have painted a mural of Macklemore wrapped in a Palestinian flag on a huge slab of concrete in the ruins of Gaza City, after the US rapper ...

At least 112,000 people have been displaced inside Yemen within the last two weeks as fighting continues along the country’s west coast amid a renewed ​conflict, while nearly 3,000 have fled ...

Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis exchanged fresh strikes across their border on Thursday and Yemenis took to boats in the Red Sea to escape fighting, as the spreading ...

Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis exchanged fresh strikes across their border on Thursday and Yemenis took to boats in the Red Sea to escape fighting, as the spreading ...

A UN fact-finding mission on Iran said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in ...

A lightning advance by Yemen’s Houthi group has brought the vital Bab el-Mandeb Strait under its control, making the once ragged highland militia a regional player with global clout. ...

President Donald Trump said he hoped an end to the war against Iran was near, as the conflict, in its seventh month, escalated with Saudi aircraft pounding Yemen and Houthi ...

Syria’s parliament voted on Wednesday to abolish an Assad-era terrorism court and nullify the legal effects of its rulings, state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV reported, in one of the first significant ...

Gaza rescuers on Wednesday searched through the wreckage of a bombed-out apartment building that collapsed overnight, killing at least 20 Palestinians including children and trapping dozens of others beneath the rubble. ...

Saudi warplanes pounded Yemen, the Houthis said on Wednesday, as the Iran-backed fighters solidified their gains after a lightning advance that has extended Tehran’s reach in the Middle East ...

Gaza rescuers on Wednesday combed through the wreckage of a bombed-out apartment building that collapsed overnight, killing at least 12 Palestinians, including five children, and trapping dozens of others beneath the ...

Pop star Ed Sheeran said dropping American rapper Macklemore from his U.S. concert tour was not Sheeran’s decision but that of the tour’s promoter, even as Sheeran ...

Saudi Arabia’s air defences destroyed a Houthi drone south of Mecca before it entered prohibited airspace over the holy city, a spokesperson for the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen ...

Fidias Panayiotou was on Tuesday one of more than 100 members of the European Parliament who signed a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen demanding that the European ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an award-winning documentary alleging that mass civilian deaths were routinely built into Israeli targeting decisions in Gaza, accusing its makers of contributing to global antisemitic ...

The Saudi Arabian Civil Defence sent an all clear on Tuesday after issuing alerts for potential danger in six cities including Yanbu, the kingdom’s main Red Sea oil port, ...

Israeli strikes on a southern Lebanese town killed at least 13 people including six children on Monday, Lebanon’s health ministry said, in one of the deadliest days of Israeli bombardment ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran wanted to reach a deal with Washington, signalling a possible diplomatic opening as fighting across the Middle East widened and ...

Saudi Arabia will run out of oil stocks for exports if it doesn’t restart its major pipeline to the Red Sea within days, leading to a loss of up ...

An Israeli airstrike on Sunday killed at least two Palestinians in a vehicle and wounded 13 others in the Gaza Strip, medical staff said. The strike in the Tel Al-Hawa neighbourhood ...

Saudi Arabia has shut down its East-West pipeline, after the vital oil conduit came under aerial attack in the widening Middle East war, threatening to send energy prices even higher. ...