Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that a site for a promised new settlement to be named after US President Donald

The United States’ military presence in the Gulf used to be a serious threat but now it is an opportunity, a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said yesterday, as President Hassan Rouhani warned of greater hardship following biting US sanctions.

The United States has started a psychological war in the region, the commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said in a parliament session on Sunday, according to a parliamentary spokesman.

A senior pro-government official yesterday accused Yemen’s Huthi rebels of faking an announced pullout from three Red Sea ports in the flashpoint province of Hodeida.

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during new clashes on the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled enclave said.

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved a new deployment of Patriot missiles to the Middle East, a US official tells Reuters, in the latest US response to what Washington sees as a growing threat from Iran.

Israel yesterday lifted a ban on Palestinian fishing boats operating off Gaza, an Israeli military body said, ending a measure imposed during a deadly flare-up of violence earlier this month.

At least 50 migrants drowned yesterday when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian coast after they had left Libya hoping to reach Europe, the United Nations migration agency said.

The Iraqi judiciary has tried and sentenced 514 foreigners since the start of 2018 for joining the Islamic State group, the country’s Supreme Court announced yesterday.

Taliban militants stormed a US-funded aid group’s central Kabul compound yesterday, having targeted the organisation for promoting Western culture and the “inter-mixing” of men and women.

Iran yesterday, a year to the day after the US withdrew from the accord, said it has decided to suspend some of its commitments under

Iran yesterday said it had stopped respecting limits on its nuclear activities agreed under a 2015 deal with major powers until they find a way to bypass renewed US sanctions.

A suspected US drone strike killed four alleged al-Qaeda jihadists in central Yemen yesterday, a security official in the area said. The

Air strikes and shelling killed 13 civilians in northwestern Syria yesterday, a monitor said, in the latest escalation to rattle a months-old truce and spark displacement.

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who launched an offensive against Tripoli last month, has urged his troops to teach unity government

At least 13 people were killed and dozens more wounded after a Taliban suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked a police

At least nine civilians, including two children, were killed Saturday in air strikes by Syria’s government and its ally Russia in the northwest

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday fiercely denounced Israel for the bombing of a building housing Turkey’s state news

Saudi Arabian will start fasting on the month of Ramadan from Monday as the country’s moon observers said the crescent of Ramadan was not sighted Saturday, the Arab News reports.

Gaza militants yesterday fired a barrage of dozens of rockets at Israel, which responded with strikes that killed a Palestinian, officials said, as a fragile ceasefire again faltered.