China’s Syria envoy yesterday said that “terrorist organisations” including the Islamic State group are being revived in the war-ravaged country, urging the international community not to ignore the “early warning” signs.

A Bangladeshi man has been killed in a road accident in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia.

An Iranian tanker sailed through the Mediterranean towards Greece yesterday after it was released from detention off Gibraltar, and Tehran said that any at US move to seize the vessel again would have “heavy consequences”.

The Libyan navy yesterday said 335 migrants had been rescued and one body recovered in separate operations off the coast, as they

Israel said it opened fire on armed Palestinians on Gaza’s border overnight and Hamas’s health ministry reported three dead yesterday, the latest in a series of incidents along the tense barrier.

Israeli warplanes struck at least three targets in the Gaza Strip early yesterday but caused no apparent casualties, a Palestinian security

A drone attack launched by Yemen’s Houthi group on an oil field in eastern Saudi Arabia yesterday caused a “limited” fire at a gas plant but had no impact on oil production, state-run oil company Saudi Aramco said.

Air strikes have killed more than two dozen civilians including 11 children in rebel-held northwestern Syria in the last two days in an escalation of a Russian-backed offensive, a war monitor and local activists said yesterday.

A female Hajj pilgrim is killed and 17 others are injured as a bus carrying Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims is involved in a tragic road accident in Saudi Arabia.

Palestinian-American lawmaker Rashida Tlaib yesterday turned down Israel’s offer to let her visit her grandmother in the occupied West Bank, owing to restrictions she termed oppressive.

An Iranian tanker seized by Gibraltar last month is preparing to set sail after being released, a senior Iranian shipping official said yesterday.

A deal between the Taliban and the United States for US forces to withdraw from their longest-ever war in Afghanistan could drive some diehard Taliban fighters into the arms of the Islamic State militant group, Afghan officials and militants say.

Iran’s top diplomat said a US attempt at “piracy” had failed after a Gibraltar court yesterday ordered the release of a tanker carrying Iranian oil despite a US detention request.

A former Blackwater private security guard was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison after a retrial on murder charges for his role in the

Syrian regime forces captured a string of insurgent-held villages in northwest Syria yesterday, inching closer to a key jihadist-run town in the Idlib region, a war monitor said.

Israel would “show great weakness” if it allows a visit by two Muslim members of the US Congress who support a boycott of the Jewish state, US President Donald Trump said yesterday.

The United States applies to seize an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar, halting its expected release at the last minute and preventing a possible swap for British-flagged tanker held by Iran.

The United Nations yesterday said it was gravely concerned about reports indicating 11 civilians had been killed in an Afghan security force operation in an eastern province near the border with Pakistan. The government’s main security agency, the National Directorate of

Clashes between regime loyalists and insurgents in rebel-held northwest Syria killed 59 combatants on Tuesday, a war monitor said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist group led by Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate, has since January controlled most of Idlib province

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has held talks with a senior Yemeni rebel official just days after the long-running