Three Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the enclave's health ministry announced, as Israel's army said it was hitting Hamas after its soldiers came under fire.

US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday criticized Middle Eastern countries for not doing enough to help Palestinians and move the peace process forward, saying that they need to "step up."

Islamic State militants kills scores of people in a series of attacks on government-held parts of southwestern Syria, including multiple suicide blasts in Sweida city, official sources says.

Israel will partially reopen its only goods crossing with the blockaded Gaza Strip yesterday, a minister said, after closing it July 9 over

At least three people were wounded after five rockets were fired into Kabul yesterday, police said, but there was no immediate claim of

Israel said it shot down a Syrian warplane that crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights yesterday, but Damascus said the jet was

The death toll from a suicide attack near Kabul international airport has risen to 23, the health ministry said yesterday, with an AFP driver

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied West Bank overnight, the Palestinian health ministry said

Israel yesterday said its air defences fired at rockets that approached its territory from neighbouring Syria, where regime troops are advancing on opposition forces close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday cautioned US President Donald Trump about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, saying "America should know ... war with Iran is the mother of all wars," but he did not rule out peace between the two countries, either.

Israel will reopen its only goods crossing with the blockaded Gaza Strip if calm is maintained, a minister said yesterday, after having closed it July 9 partly over kites carrying firebombs.

Hundreds of members of Syria's "White Helmet" civil defence group and their families fled advancing government forces and slipped over the border into Jordan overnight with the help of Israeli soldiers and Western powers, officials said.

President Bashar al-Assad is set to recover control of the Syrian frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in a major victory over rebels who have agreed to surrender terms, sources on both sides said yesterday.

Israel yesterday passed a "nation-state" law declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country, stirring anger from members of the Arab minority who said it was racist and drawing an expression of concern from the EU.

Unidentified air strikes have killed 12 civilians in a rebel-held pocket of southern Syria as regime ally Russia presses talks for Damascus

Saudi Arabia yesterday intercepted a missile fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, where a Riyadh-led coalition is fighting the insurgents, state media said.

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

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.

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