Two seemingly armed and desperate Lebanese depositors held up banks on Wednesday to force access to their own money, which has been blocked during a national financial meltdown.

An Israeli soldier and two Palestinians were killed in overnight clashes Wednesday near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, the army and the Palestinian health ministry said.

Six people including children drowned when a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon destined for Italy sunk off the coast of southwestern Turkey, the Turkish coast guard said on Tuesday.

Syria’s simmering 11-year war is at risk of boiling up once again with a return to large-scale combat after several frontlines across the country flared up in

Saudi authorities have arrested a man who claimed to have travelled to the Muslim holy city of Makkah to perform an Umrah pilgrimage on behalf of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

A Palestinian succumbed to his wounds yesterday, five days after being shot by the Israeli army during a home demolition in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Iran’s foreign ministry on Saturday described as “unconstructive” and “regrettable” a joint statement issued by Germany, France and Britain about negotiations aimed at reviving a 2015 nuclear deal.

A Palestinian teenager was killed in the West Bank yesterday after what the Israeli army said was an attack on a soldier, the fourth deadly incident in the occupied territory in as many days.

Gulf Arab countries on Tuesday asked Netflix to remove “offensive content” on the streaming service, apparently targeting programs that show people who are gay and lesbian.

An Israeli air attack on Syria's Aleppo airport on Tuesday has damaged the runway and taken the airport out of service, the Syrian defence ministry said.

Archaeologists revealed ivory plaques found in a luxurious Jerusalem Iron Age residence, a first-of-its-kind discovery at this location that sheds light on the owner’s wealth and social status.

A Palestinian was killed and 16 wounded yesterday when Israeli troops entered Jenin in the occupied West Bank to carry out a home demolition, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch released a video on Saturday showing a “Bangladeshi UN official” who was abducted in the war-torn country more than six months ago, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.

Underlining Yemen's parlous security, on Saturday AQAP released a video showing a United Nations worker who was abducted more than six months ago, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.

Iranian authorities have introduced defence systems in 51 cities to counter “biological, radiological and chemical threats”, deputy defence minister Mehdi Farahi has announced.

Palestinians fired on an Israeli bus on a desert highway in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli military authorities and medics said, wounding five soldiers and the driver in an attack that suggested violence may be spiralling anew.

Two Palestinians were killed early yesterday in separate clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

A months-long political crisis in Iraq showed little sign of abating yesterday despite a fresh push for negotiations after nearly 24 hours of deadly violence between rival Shia factions ended.

Iran needs stronger guarantees from Washington for the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal, its foreign minister said in Moscow yesterday, adding that the UN atomic watchdog should drop its “politically motivated probes” of Tehran’s nuclear work.

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for social media posts, a rights group said, in the latest example of a crackdown on women activists that followed a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden to the kingdom.