Victims of Lebanon’s deadly 2020 port blast have filed a quarter-billion-dollar lawsuit against a US firm for its suspected links to the tragedy, a Swiss foundation assisting the plaintiffs said yesterday.

US President Joe Biden yesterday arrived in Israel, which embraced him as an old friend on the first leg of a high-stakes trip dominated by efforts to bring it

Tehran yesterday hit out at what it called Washington’s “contradictory” policies, after President Joe Biden vowed to pile pressure on Iran ahead of a visit to US allies in the Middle East.

Iran is planning to supply hundreds of drones with combat weapon capabilities to Russia for use in Ukraine, a top US official said Monday.

An ex-Saudi intelligence chief described Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “a psychopath” during an interview with CBS News that aired a few days prior to US President Joe Biden visiting the Kingdom.

Iran has arrested internationally renowned filmmaker Jafar Panahi amid crackdown on the country’s celebrated cinema industry.

Huge crowds of robed Muslim pilgrims prayed on Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat yesterday, the climax of the biggest hajj pilgrimage since the pandemic forced drastic cuts in numbers two years in a row.

Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa lost her appeal against a conviction for cyber libel, her news website Rappler said yesterday, in the latest blow for the veteran journalist.

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a network of Hong Kong, Emirati and other companies that it accused of helping to deliver and sell Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products to East Asia, applying pressure on Tehran as Washington seeks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

The biggest hajj pilgrimage since the Covid pandemic began yesterday, with hundreds of thousands of worshippers at Islam’s holiest site in Saudi Arabia’s Makkah.

Israeli forces shot dead a wanted Palestinian suspect and arrested two dozen in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the military said, as

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday as he was attempting to flee an army raid, officials on both sides said.

US officials said the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was likely fired from an Israeli position.

Israel said yesterday it would test a bullet that killed a Palestinian-American journalist to determine whether one of its soldiers shot her and said a US observer would be present.

A Palestinian teenager died on Sunday after being shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank a day earlier, Palestinian medical sources said.

A series of strong earthquakes rocked southern Iran yesterday, killing at least five people, injuring over 80 others and flattening dozens of buildings. 

Israeli lawmakers dissolved parliament yesterday, forcing the country’s fifth election in less than four years, with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid set to take over as

Israel’s parliament is expected to dissolve yesterday, ending PM Naftali Bennett’s year-long tenure and triggering a fifth election in less than four

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian early yesterday during clashes in the hotspot town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. 

Iran, which holds the world’s second largest gas reserves, has applied to join the BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa