Israel tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip yesterday, partly over kites carrying firebombs to set alight Israeli farmland, as concerns mounted over whether the rudimentary devices could spark another war.

Iran has lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice against the United States' reimposition of sanctions, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

Saudi Arabia yesterday executed seven death row inmates who had been convicted of murder and drug trafficking, state media reported.

At least nine pro-regime fighters died in a suspected Israeli missile strike overnight in northern Syria, a monitor said yesterday. Syrian

An Israeli aircraft hit two Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip yesterday in response to balloons carrying firebombs over the border fence to burn Israeli farmland, the army said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday said that he discussed Syria and Iran with US President Donald Trump ahead of the

A woman may face charges under a new harassment law in Saudi Arabia after storming a stage to hug a pop star, authorities and local media said yesterday.

The number of Afghan civilians killed in the country's long-running conflict hit a record high in the first six months of 2018, UN figures showed yesterday, with militant attacks and suicide bombs the leading causes of death.

A suicide attacker blew himself up in front of a government ministry in Kabul yesterday as workers were leaving their offices, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 15, officials said, in the latest deadly violence in Afghanistan.

Dozens of demonstrators were wounded in southern Iraq yesterday in clashes with police as protests over unemployment and a lack of basic services entered a second week, officials said.

A ceasefire announced by Hamas largely held yesterday after the most severe exchange of fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip since a 2014 war,.

Syrian rebels and their relatives began evacuating the southern city of Daraa yesterday under a deal to bring the "cradle" of the country's uprising back under government control.

Israel and Gaza militant groups agrees a ceasefire, a Palestinian official says, after Israel launched dozens of air strikes against the Palestinian enclave's ruling Hamas group and gunmen fired more than 100 rockets across the border.

Two Palestinians were killed yesterday as Israel unleashed a wave of air strikes against the Gaza Strip, while scores of rockets were fired back from the Hamas-run territory.

An air strike on one of the last holdouts of the Islamic State group in Syria has killed 54 people, more than half of them civilians, a war monitor said yesterday.

The Syrian government widened its offensive to recover the southwest yesterday, extending it to an enclave held by Islamic State-affiliated fighters as Russian warplanes targeted the area, a war monitor said.

A suicide attacker blew himself up near an Afghan security forces vehicle yesterday, killing at least 12 people, mostly civilians, officials

More than two dozen pro-government fighters were killed in northwestern Syria overnight in a joint attack by rebel and Islamist forces, a

Iranians on social media mocks clerical rulers on Monday after the hardline judiciary arrested a teenage girl for posting on Instagram videos of herself dancing in her room.

The trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara, charged with fraud and breach of trust, has been postponed for three