Middle East

MECCA DEFENCE PACT / Turkey, KSA, Pakistan to hold first meeting today

Reuters, Istanbul

31 August 2026 • Middle East

Israeli airstrike kills two people in Gaza

Reuters, Cairo

31 August 2026 • Middle East

Israeli strikes kill three in Gaza

AFP, Gaza City

29 August 2026 • Middle East

New US threats: Iran warns of ‘crushing’ response

Agencies

22 August 2026 • Middle East

Iran fishermen venture back to Hormuz despite fears of new fighting

AFP, Bandar Abbas

18 August 2026 • Middle East

OCCUPIED WEST BANK / Activists rush aid to Palestinians besieged by settlers

AFP, Qusra

15 August 2026 • Middle East

Trump ‘used a catering truck to sneak off Air Force One’

Agencies

12 August 2026 • Middle East

Saudi Arabia Pakistan Turkey Defence Pact Impact On US Iran Relations

KSA-Pak-Turkey deal: A ‘change in perception’ of US - Iran

AFP, Tehran

11 August 2026 • Middle East

Syria reaches deal with Moscow on fate of Russian bases

AFP, Damascus

10 August 2026 • Middle East

Update / 16 Bangladeshis killed in Saudi factory fire

Star Online Report

10 August 2026 • Middle East

World talks on as Aleppo bleeds

Air strikes pummelled the shrinking rebel enclave in Aleppo yesterday as US Secretary of State John Kerry said the Syrian

10 December 2016

Cairo blast kills 6 cops

A bombing killed six policemen at a checkpoint in Cairo yesterday, the latest in a series of attacks in the capital targeting security forces

9 December 2016

Aleppo win will be a 'huge step'

President Bashar al-Assad said victory for his forces in Aleppo would be a "huge step" in ending Syria's war, as government troops battled yesterday to retake more rebel ground.

8 December 2016

Israel votes to advance bill

Israeli lawmakers voted Wednesday to advance a bill legalising some 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank despite

8 December 2016

Saudi, Iran engaging in 'proxy wars': UK FM

Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson has accused Saudi Arabia and Iran of "puppeteering" and engaging in "proxy wars" in the

8 December 2016

Kidnapped journo appears in IS video

The Islamic State group has released a video showing John Cantlie, a British journalist kidnapped in Syria four years ago, alive in

8 December 2016

Palestinian tries to stab Israeli, shot dead

An 18-year-old Palestinian threatened Israeli border police with a knife at a flashpoint junction in the occupied West Bank

8 December 2016

40 missing after ship sinks off Yemen

Around 40 people were missing off the Yemeni island of Socotra yesterday after a cargo vessel carrying islanders home from the

7 December 2016

Forces push deep, face IS resistance

Iraqi forces battled jihadists deep inside Mosul yesterday, edging closer to the River Tigris that divides the city and looking for

7 December 2016

Regime retakes Aleppo Old City

Rebels in Aleppo called for a five-day truce and the evacuation of civilians yesterday after losing more than three quarters of their territory including the Old City to a Syrian army offensive.

7 December 2016