A new Kuwaiti government was sworn in yesterday, the oil-rich Gulf emirate’s fourth in two years, after the last one resigned in November amid political deadlock. 

An Israeli was wounded in a shooting attack on the Gaza border yesterday, the military said, after a rare visit to Israel by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas drew condemnation from the enclave’s Hamas rulers. 

An Israeli was wounded in a shooting attack on the Gaza border on Wednesday, the military said, after a rare visit to Israel by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas drew condemnation from the enclave's Hamas rulers.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday said that Israel would not automatically oppose a nuclear deal with Iran but world powers must take a firmer position.

Israel’s government has approved a $317 million plan to double the Jewish settler population in the Golan Heights, 40 years after it annexed the territory captured from Syria.

The Saudi-led coalition yesterday accused Iran and Hezbollah of helping Yemen’s Huthi rebels to launch missiles and drones at the kingdom, where two people were killed.

Iran said nuclear talks that are set to resume yesterday in Vienna should focus on lifting sanctions on the Islamic republic and “guarantees” the US will return to the fold.

Saudi Arabia today announced that a man had been executed in Riyadh for planning to target public civilian gatherings through a suicide mission under the direction of ISIS, reports Al Arabiya.

Israel’s government yesterday approved a $317 million plan to double the Jewish settler population in the Golan Heights, 40 years after it annexed the territory captured from Syria.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen yesterday said it struck a Huthi rebel camp in the capital Sanaa, as it intensified an aerial bombing campaign against the Iran-backed insurgents.

Ten people were killed and more than a dozen injured in Iran yesterday when a truck collided with a minibus transporting workers in southwestern Khuzestan province, state media said.

The governor of Iraq’s Najaf province resigned on Friday, a day after another governor also quit following demonstrations against living conditions and corruption.

War games conducted this week by Iran in the Gulf were intended to send a warning to Israel, the country’s top military commanders said on Friday, amid concerns over possible Israeli plans to target Iranian nuclear sites.

Iran has no plans to enrich uranium beyond 60 percent if nuclear talks in Vienna fail, the head of the country’s atomic agency said yesterday.

The Saudi-led coalition yesterday launched a “large-scale” assault on Yemen after missiles fired by Iran-backed Huthi rebels killed two people in the kingdom, the first such deaths in three years.

Israel has ordered 100,000 units of Pfizer Inc’s anti-viral COVID 19 pill Paxlovid for people aged 12 and older at risk of severe illness, an Israeli official said on Saturday, confirming a television report.

Talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will resume next Monday, the EU diplomat chairing the negotiations said on Thursday, urging a “picking up of the

Talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will resume next Monday, the EU diplomat chairing the negotiations said yesterday, urging a “picking up of the pace”.

Iraq has paid its last war reparations to Kuwait more than 30 years since the invasion of the Gulf country by former autocrat Saddam Hussein,

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen yesterday rejected accusations that it was slow to facilitate the evacuation from Sanaa of an Iranian diplomat who later died of coronavirus.