Israel announced yesterday it had reached a deal with the UN refugee agency to cancel a controversial plan to deport African migrants and replace it with a new one that will see thousands sent to Western countries. A minimum of 16,250 migrants will be resettled in unspecified Western nations under the agreement announced in a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

A final deal has been reached for fighters and civilians to leave the last opposition-held pocket of Eastern Ghouta, a monitor said yesterday, paving the way for Syria's regime to retake the onetime rebel enclave near Damascus. The deal brokered by regime ally Russia would see fighters with the Jaish al-Islam rebel faction leave Ghouta's main town of Douma for opposition-held territory in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Israel rejected calls for an independent probe yesterday after its soldiers killed 16 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more when a major demonstration led to clashes along the border with the Gaza Strip.

Gazans buried their dead yesterday with calls for "revenge" a day after a major demonstration led to clashes that saw Israeli forces kill 16

A US judge has rejected Saudi Arabia's bid to dismiss lawsuits claiming that it helped plan the September 11 attacks in 2001 and should

Israeli tanks hit two Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip yesterday after activists set fire to the base of the security fence on the volatile

Pressure was mounting yesterday for rebels to accept a negotiated withdrawal from their final holdout in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, as

Egyptian authorities yesterday pressed for a high turnout on the second day of a presidential election designed to give President Abdel

The United Arab Emirates said two Qatari fighter jets "dangerously approached" two UAE passenger flights on Monday, sparking a swift

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and more than a dozen other national delegations yesterday

Six former Israeli spymasters yesterday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of jeopardising the country's future as it prepares to

The United Arab Emirates said yesterday that one of four nuclear reactors at its debut plant has been completed as it moves closer to

An Israeli tank struck two Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip late Sunday after bullets were fired from the Palestinian enclave, the Israeli

Israeli police yesterday questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his alleged dealings with the country's largest

Syrian rebel factions are blaming each other for opening the way to their defeat near Damascus, underlining splits that plagued the

Nearly 2,000 Syrian rebels and civilians began leaving a ravaged pocket of Eastern Ghouta yesterday, in fresh evacuations that

Thousands of African asylum seekers and their local supporters protest against an Israeli plan to deport them.

A policeman was killed in a bomb attack yesterday targeting the security chief of Egypt's Alexandria, officials said, two days before the

As Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for the first time to a commercial flight to Israel, El Al will take its own fight for access to Saudi airspace to the Supreme Court in Israel, officials say.

Russian air strikes killed 37 civilians in the Arbin area of the shrinking rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus overnight, the