UN Security Council members voiced concern on Thursday and stressed the need to maintain a status quo at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, days after Israel's new far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir briefly visited the site.

The Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy yesterday in the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said, where armed clashes broke out between militants and Israeli forces.

A member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was shot dead outside his house in Tehran, state media reported yesterday, adding that he may have been killed during a burglary.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were among nations to condemn a visit by Israel’s extreme-right new national security minister to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Dubai has suspended a tax of 30 percent on alcohol and dropped a licence fee previously needed to buy alcohol in the commercial and tourism hub, two major retailers said on social media.

The Israeli army killed two Palestinians in a West Bank raid yesterday as it demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of killing an Israeli soldier, Palestinian officials said.

Iranian police have resumed warnings that women must wear mandatory headscarves even in cars, media reported yesterday, as unrest continues following the death of Mahsa Amini.

The Israeli army killed two Palestinians in a West Bank raid on Monday, Palestinian officials said, as it demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of killing an Israeli soldier.

The Israeli army carried out a missile strike on Damascus International Airport today that killed four people, including two Syrian soldiers, according to a human rights monitor..The attack -- which occurred around 2:00 am (2300 GMT) -- put the airport out of service, according to Syria's

Iranian dissident journalist Keyvan Samimi, jailed in December 2020 for “plotting against national security”, has been released, reformist daily Shargh reported yesterday.

Iranian police briefly detained several unidentified top-tier football players in a raid on a party on New Year’s Eve where alcohol was served in violation of an Islamic ban, Iranian media reported.

Israel’s hawkish veteran Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as prime minister Thursday after a stint in opposition, heading what analysts call the most right-wing government in the country’s history.

An attack in eastern Syria killed 12 oil field workers, a war monitor said yesterday, a day after Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced an offensive against jihadists.

Iran’s army was set to begin military exercises in strategic southern regions east of the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, state news agency IRNA reported.

Israel’s parliament yesterday passed controversial legislation paving the way for the return of veteran hawk Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.

Six Kurdish-led security force members were killed in an Islamic State suicide attack yesterday on a security forces centre in Syria’s Raqqa, the chief of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, wrote on Twitter.

Iran's Supreme Court has accepted the death sentence appeal of rapper Saman Seydi Yasin even as it confirmed a death sentence against another protestor, the country's judiciary said on Saturday.

Veteran leader Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had formed a new Israeli government, returning to power as the head of the most right-wing coalition in Israel’s history.

President Gabriel Boric of Chile, whose country has the largest Palestinian population outside of the Middle East, said Wednesday that he planned to open an embassy "in Palestine".

The United States imposed sanctions on Iranian officials on Wednesday, including the prosecutor general and key military officials, stepping up pressure on Tehran over its crackdown on protests.