Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized a foreign vessel smuggling fuel in the Gulf and arrested its crew members, state media said yesterday, in the third such incident reported this month.

Israeli forces yesterday said they had arrested 12 people across the occupied West Bank over the weekend in connection with a spate of deadly attacks inside the Jewish state.

The death toll from several migrant shipwrecks off the Tunisian coast has risen to 17 people, a judicial official said yesterday.

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said yesterday that Israel was “committed” to the status quo at the flashpoint Jerusalem holy site at the heart of a recent wave of violence.

Israel yesterday said it will close its only crossing from the Gaza Strip for workers in response to overnight rocket fire, stopping short of conducting retaliatory strikes in an apparent bid to ease tensions.

Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters yesterday in the latest violence at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, as the United Nations voiced deep concern at spiralling unrest.

Israeli police in full riot gear stormed a sensitive Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Friday after Palestinian youths hurled stones at a gate where they were stationed.

Israel shot down a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip late on Monday, the Israeli military said, the first such attack in months as tensions over a flashpoint Jerusalem shrine drew angry pro-Palestinian rhetoric from Jordan and US mediation efforts.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi yesterday warned that the armed forces would not let arch-foe Israel rest if it took action targeting the Islamic

More than 20 Israelis and Palestinians were wounded yesterday in several incidents in and around Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, two days after major violence at the site.

Clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police wounded ten protesters on Sunday morning in and around Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the site of major clashes two days earlier.

Almost one year after confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in Jerusalem led to war in the Gaza Strip, escalating tension in the city during the holy month of Ramadan has raised fears that events of 2021 could repeat.

A tanker carrying 750 tonnes of diesel fuel from Egypt to Malta sank yesterday in the Gulf of Gabes off Tunisia’s southeast coast, sparking a rush to avoid a spill.

The death toll from landslides and flooding in the Philippines triggered by tropical storm Megi rose to 148, official figures showed, as more bodies were found in mud-caked villages.

At least 152 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli riot police inside Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday, extending a recent resurgence of violence that has raised fears of a slide back to wider conflict.

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, as troops mounted more sweeps in the

Fresh clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants rocked the West Bank city of Jenin yesterday as a Palestinian stabbed a police officer in Israel before being shot dead.

Israeli forces yesterday launched a third day of operations around the flashpoint West Bank city of Jenin following heavy gun battles in recent days and 20 arrests overnight, the army said.

Iran’s foreign minister said yesterday that Washington is “imposing new conditions” in the negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement.

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian woman yesterday near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest in a surge of violence.