Israelis began voting Tuesday in a high-stakes election that will decide whether to extend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long right-wing tenure despite corruption allegations or to replace him with an ex-military chief new to politics.

The Israeli occupied West Bank "absolutely" belongs to Palestinians, said President Recep Tayyip Er-dogan yesterday, lambasting Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu for his remarks on annexing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if re-elected.

The United Nations yesterday called for an investigation into the deaths of 11 civilians including stu-dents in Yemen's capital, where rebels accused a Saudi-led coalition of carrying out a deadly air strike.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on Iraq to demand US troops leave "as soon as possible", warning that

Eastern Libyan forces carried out an air strike on the southern part of Tripoli yesterday, escalating an operation to take the capital

Twin explosions yesterday in the eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad killed three people including a child and injured 20 others, local

Libyan forces under Khalifa Haftar battled their way to the south of Tripoli on Friday, prompting the UN Security Council and the G7 to

Forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar were pushed back from a key checkpoint less than 30 kilometres from Tripoli, checking their lightning advance on the capital, a security source said yesterday.

Afghan security forces have arrested six alleged members of the Islamic State militant group and accused them of using hundreds of fake accounts on Facebook Inc and other social media to find recruits, authorities said yesterday.

The US House of Representatives approved a resolution yesterday to end US support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the war in Yemen, rebuffing President Donald Trump's policy toward the kingdom.

Heavy bombardment by the Syrian army of the jihadist-controlled Idlib region has killed 22 civilians, a monitor said yesterday, the latest violence which threatens a seven-month-old truce.

Forces led by a controversial Libyan military chief yesterday advanced towards Tripoli as UN chief Antonio Guterres warned of the growing risk of violence.

The children of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi have received multimillion-dollar homes and are being paid thousands of

Taliban fighters on Saturday attacked a convoy carrying Afghanistan's vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum, in an assault that left the

The top three contenders in Ukraine's presidential elections cast their vote yesterday in a first round which a comedian - who happens to

Afghanistan's vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, escapes unhurt from an attack that killed one of his bodyguards, dodging death for the second time since returning from exile last year.

Israeli fire kills a Palestinian man near the Gaza border, Palestinian Health officials say, as Israel's forces mass at the frontier ahead of a rally to mark the first anniversary of a surge of Gaza border protests.

Saudi Arabia yesterday released three out of 11 women detained last year in a sweeping crackdown on activists, a close relative and London-based rights group ALQST said.

A military helicopter has crashed in southwestern Kazakhstan, killing all 13 servicemen on board, the defence ministry said yesterday.

Palestinian militants fired three rockets at Israel overnight prompting retaliatory fire from Israel, with the exchanges threatening a Hamas-declared truce.