Syria has confirmed major damage including to runways at Damascus International Airport, which was closed for a second day yesterday for repairs after Israeli air strikes.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said he would run in next year’s presidential vote and brushed aside rumours of a snap poll in the economically-battered nation.

At least 17 people were killed and 86 were injured yesterday when a train derailed near the central Iranian city of Tabas after hitting an excavator beside the

Israel’s occupation and discrimination against Palestinians are the main causes of the endless cycles of violence, UN investigators said yesterday, prompting angry Israeli protests.

Indonesia and Malaysia have both summoned India’s envoys in their countries over “derogatory” remarks made about the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) by two officials with the South Asian nation’s ruling party, their foreign ministries said yesterday.

Qatar today summoned Indian Ambassador Deepak Mittal and handed him an official note, expressing total condemnation of the controversial remarks made by a now-suspended BJP leader against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday accused the “enemy”, a reference mainly to the United States, of seeking to use protests to weaken the Islamic republic.

Saudi Arabia yesterday welcomed its first batch of hajj pilgrims since before the coronavirus pandemic, which prompted authorities to sharply restrict the annual ritual.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday warned the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency that Israel was prepared to use it’s “right to self defense” to stop Iran’s nuclear programme.

Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a two-month truce, the United Nations said yesterday, in an 11th-hour move on the day it was set to expire.

Israeli troops shot dead a teen in the West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the fourth Palestinian killed in the

A knife-wielding Palestinian woman, 31, threatened an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank and was shot dead yesterday, the army said, an account

Israel signed a free trade deal with the United Arab Emirates yesterday, its first with an Arab country, building on their US-brokered normalisation of diplomatic relations in 2020.

Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient Egyptian coffins and bronze statues of deities.

Israel yesterday accused its arch-foe Iran of stealing classified documents from the International Atomic Energy Agency to help it hide evidence of its nuclear programme.

The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards yesterday accused “Zionists” of assassinating a colonel in Tehran earlier this month, the Guards’ official website reported.

Turkey will not wait for US “permission” to launch a new offensive in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published yesterday, defying a warning from Washington.

More than 30 people were killed in southern Nigeria yesterday after a stampede erupted during a crowded church charity event where food was being distributed.

A Palestinian teenager was shot by Israeli troops Friday near the town of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank and died of his wounds, the Palestinian health ministry said.

An Al Jazeera journalist shot dead in the occupied West Bank earlier this month was murdered in a “war crime” by an Israeli soldier, an official Palestinian investigation concluded Thursday.