The Israeli army said its troops shot dead four heavily armed Palestinians on the Gaza border early yesterday, alleging one of them had managed to cross and throw a grenade at soldiers.

The Philippines yesterday stood firm on its ban on the world’s first dengue vaccine while declaring a nationwide epidemic from the

The Taliban warned Afghans to keep away from election rallies and ordered its fighters to “stand against” the planned September vote.

President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said that Iran favours talks with the US if it lifts sanctions against the Islamic republic, despite his

Saudi air defences intercepted Yemeni rebel drones targeting civilian airports yesterday, a Riyadh-led military coalition said, as the

A new locally-developed app helps Palestinian drivers in the occupied West Bank negotiate traffic at Israeli military checkpoints and

The US is acting alone against Tehran and its allies are too “ashamed” to join its forces in the Gulf, Iran’s top diplomat said yesterday,

Tens of millions of people on Indonesia’s heavily populated Java island were affected by a widespread electricity outage yesterday after the state utility

The death toll from the capsize of three Philippine ferries in bad weather rose to 31 yesterday as rescuers found more bodies, a coast

Iran has seized a foreign tanker in the Gulf, state media said yesterday, in what would be the third such seizure in a month amid

Four people died and several were injured after a powerful undersea earthquake rocked Indonesia’s heavily populated Java island,

Washington is hoping for a breakthrough as talks between the US and the Taliban resumed in Doha yesterday in a bid to end 18 years

Saudi Arabia will allow women to travel abroad without approval from a male “guardian”, the government said Thursday, ending a restriction that drew international censure and prompted extreme attempts to flee the kingdom.

Al-Qaeda gunmen killed 19 soldiers in an attack on an army base in southern Yemen yesterday, security officials said, a day after deadly assaults by rebels and a jihadist bomber.

A Palestinian crossed into Israel from Gaza and shot at troops, setting off a firefight in which he was killed and three Israeli soldiers were

Separate attacks by Shia rebels and a jihadist suicide bomber killed at least 49 people in Yemen’s government-held second city Aden yesterday, many of them newly trained police cadets.

Israeli ministers have given rare approval to 700 Palestinian homes in the part of the occupied West Bank under the country’s full control while also approving 6,000 homes for settlers, an Israeli official said yesterday. The official, speaking on condition of

The estranged wife of the ruler of Dubai has applied for a UK forced marriage protection order relating to their children, a London court heard Tuesday. Princess Haya, 45, a wife of 70-year-old United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum,

Saudi Arabia was yesterday gearing up for the funeral of King Salman’s elder brother, the royal court said, after he died at the age of 96.

An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees even as the organisation faced an unprecedented crisis after US funding cuts.