An apparent attack with what witnesses say were axes or knives left three people dead in the central Israeli city of Elad on Thursday, the country’s independence day.

Israel's Supreme Court has rejected a petition against the eviction of more than 1,000 Palestinian inhabitants of a rural part of the occupied West Bank in an area which Israel has designated for military exercises.

Muslims in Saudi Arabia offered Eid-ul-Fitr prayers in Makkah and Madinah this morning.

An end to years of tension between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia is near, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi said in an interview published yesterday.

Israeli security forces reinforced their presence in the occupied West Bank yesterday and made arrests after the killing of a guard at a Jewish settlement.

In Saudi Arabia, the moon of Shawwal month was not seen on Saturday (April 30, 2022). Hence, tomorrow (Sunday) will be the last day of the holy month of Ramadan in Saudi Arabia, and Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on Monday (May 2, 2022).

Fresh clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound wounded 42 people on the last Friday of Ramadan, following weeks of violence at the flashpoint religious site.

Israeli air strikes near Damascus yesterday killed nine combatants, among them five Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest such raid since the start of 2022, a war monitor said.

Israeli forces yesterday killed an 18-year-old Palestinian man in the West Bank flashpoint city of Jenin in what the army called its latest “counterterrorism” raid

Iran yesterday called for a new meeting “as soon as possible” in the talks that have been held in Vienna aimed at restoring its frayed 2015 nuclear deal with major powers.

A projectile was fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, prompting a retaliation, the Israel Defense Forces said early yesterday.

Clashes between rival groups in Sudan's Darfur killed at least 160 people on Sunday, an aid group said, in the latest bout of deadly violence to hit the restive region.

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said yesterday that Israel was “committed” to the status quo at the flashpoint Jerusalem holy site at the heart of a recent wave of violence.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized a foreign vessel smuggling fuel in the Gulf and arrested its crew members, state media said yesterday, in the third such incident reported this month.

Israeli forces yesterday said they had arrested 12 people across the occupied West Bank over the weekend in connection with a spate of deadly attacks inside the Jewish state.

The death toll from several migrant shipwrecks off the Tunisian coast has risen to 17 people, a judicial official said yesterday.

Israel yesterday said it will close its only crossing from the Gaza Strip for workers in response to overnight rocket fire, stopping short of conducting retaliatory strikes in an apparent bid to ease tensions.

Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters yesterday in the latest violence at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, as the United Nations voiced deep concern at spiralling unrest.

Israeli police in full riot gear stormed a sensitive Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Friday after Palestinian youths hurled stones at a gate where they were stationed.

Israel shot down a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip late on Monday, the Israeli military said, the first such attack in months as tensions over a flashpoint Jerusalem shrine drew angry pro-Palestinian rhetoric from Jordan and US mediation efforts.