Israel's defence minister yesterday said a Palestinian scientist shot dead in Malaysia was a rocket expert and "no saint", but dismissed

Saudi Arabia hosted its first public film screening in over 35 years on Friday showing Hollywood blockbuster action film "Black Panther".

Inspectors from the world's chemical arms watchdog arrived yesterday in the Syrian town of Douma, where an alleged chemical attack

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said Iran's atomic agency was ready with "expected and unexpected" reactions if the United

The family of a Palestinian professor and Hamas member yesterday accused Israel's Mossad spy agency of killing him on the streets of

Qatari forces participated in joint military exercises that ended in Saudi Arabia this week, in an apparent sign of some compromise among US-allied Arab states locked in a nearly year-long dispute.

Five Palestinians were injured by Israeli fire along the Gaza border yesterday, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said, with

A UN security team was fired at on Tuesday while on a reconnaissance mission in the Syrian town of Douma to prepare the deployment

A Philippine domestic worker has been hospitalised in Saudi Arabia after her employer allegedly forced her to drink household bleach,

Western countries yesterday accused Moscow of preventing inspectors from reaching the site of a suspected poison gas attack in Syria

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended for three months from Saturday a state of emergency for the fourth time since it was first

Israel's army yesterday said it had destroyed a Hamas tunnel crossing from the Gaza Strip into its territory. Defence Minister Avigdor

Saudi Arabia's King Salman yesterday criticised the US decision to transfer its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as Arab leaders met in the kingdom for an annual gathering.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman openes an Arab League summit by criticising US President Donald Trump's decision to transfer the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The United States, British and French forces strike Syria with more than 100 missiles in the first coordinated Western strikes against the Damascus government, targeting what they called chemical weapons sites in retaliation for a poison gas attack.

Taliban militants ambushed a checkpoint in western Afghanistan, killing at least nine policemen, officials said yesterday, in the latest

Saudi air defences intercepted a missile fired by Yemeni rebels at the kingdom's southern city of Jizan on Thursday, the Saudi-led

President Donald Trump's pick to become Washington's top diplomat pledged Thursday to work with US allies to strengthen the Iran

At least 25 people were killed and 18 injured in Thursday's bomb attack on funerals for Iraqi fighters killed by jihadists, according to a

Israeli troops shot and wounded 30 Palestinians during a large protest on the Gaza-Israel border yesterday in which demonstrators