Nearly a dozen fishermen were killed off Bandar Abbas and nearby southern islands, and 17 others from the neighbouring Sistan-Baluchistan province south of Hormuz went missing during months of fighting, according to Iranian media

Activists attempted to deliver supplies to Palestinians under an almost week-long settler siege in the West Bank yesterday, with the Israeli military again deployed at the flashpoint site.

US President Donald Trump took a secret military flight from Turkey last month in an operation that involved him being moved between aircraft in a catering truck, an extraordinary deception prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, the Washington Post reported.

Iran’s foreign ministry said yesterday that a defence pact signed last week between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan was “a sign of a change in the perception” of countries in the region towards the United States.

Expatriates’ welfare minister pledges support for families

Syria said yesterday that it reached a deal with Moscow on the fate of Russia’s two bases in the country, which it once used to provide military support to ousted leader Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian civil war.

Hamas yesterday said it remained ready to proceed with a US-backed Gaza peace plan and urged pressure on Israel, which insists it did not agree to the latest part of the deal.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey yesterday signed a joint defence agreement in Makkah, wedding Sunni Muslim US allies alarmed at a regional conflagration that has rained missile fire onto Gulf oil exporters.

Agreement commits three countries to collective deterrence against armed aggression

Attacks mark one of the deadliest clashes since 2022, officials say

Iran warns Gulf states US strikes will trigger attacks on them

Any control over strait would be major concession to Iran

US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace on Monday assured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel’s withdrawal in Gaza would only begin after Hamas’s complete disarmament, following his objections.

Israel yesterday voiced objections over a plan promoted by President Donald Trump to end the Gaza war, with a cabinet member seeking to tear it up, defying pressure to end strikes and begin pulling forces from the Palestinian territory.

Iran’s military said yesterday it launched drone strikes targeting US military facilities in Kuwait, as fighting resumed between Washington and Tehran in the Middle East war after a nearly week-long lull.

An Israeli airstrike yesterday killed a senior officer of the Hamas-run Palestinian internal security service in the Gaza Strip and an associate as they travelled in a vehicle through Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, medics and police officials said.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels yesterday claimed a missile attack on Saudi Arabia, opening a new front as conflict between US and Iranian allies intensified.

Four Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in a shooting incident in the occupied West Bank yesterday, according to Israeli and Palestinian health officials.

Iran flew Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders, advisers, and missile‑ and drone‑related equipment into Yemen this month, according to four sources, in a move seen as bolstering Houthi capabilities to threaten Red Sea shipping.

A vessel belonging to a Saudi company was hit while transiting the Red Sea