Israeli forces bombed Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight in retaliation for Palestinian rocket attacks, the military said yesterday.

Damascus yesterday said it is opening a corridor for civilians to leave the rebel-held northwestern region of Idlib, where government bombardment has killed hundreds since late April, state media said.

Iran is prepared to work on French proposals to salvage the international nuclear deal that Tehran signed with world powers in 2015 but it will not tolerate US interference in the Gulf, its foreign minister said yesterday.

The death toll from an Islamic State attack on a Kabul wedding at the weekend has reached at least 80, an official said yesterday, as the Afghan capital still reels from the deadliest blast in more than a year. A suicide bomber targeted a packed Afghan wedding hall in west

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday began implementing a landmark reform allowing women over the age of 21 to receive passports and travel abroad without permission from a male “guardian”, authorities said. The reform, announced earlier this month, weakens the restrictive

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is expected to visit Paris and meet with his counterpart and the French President

China’s Syria envoy yesterday said that “terrorist organisations” including the Islamic State group are being revived in the war-ravaged country, urging the international community not to ignore the “early warning” signs.

A Bangladeshi man has been killed in a road accident in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia.

An Iranian tanker sailed through the Mediterranean towards Greece yesterday after it was released from detention off Gibraltar, and Tehran said that any at US move to seize the vessel again would have “heavy consequences”.

The Libyan navy yesterday said 335 migrants had been rescued and one body recovered in separate operations off the coast, as they

Israel said it opened fire on armed Palestinians on Gaza’s border overnight and Hamas’s health ministry reported three dead yesterday, the latest in a series of incidents along the tense barrier.

Air strikes have killed more than two dozen civilians including 11 children in rebel-held northwestern Syria in the last two days in an escalation of a Russian-backed offensive, a war monitor and local activists said yesterday.

Israeli warplanes struck at least three targets in the Gaza Strip early yesterday but caused no apparent casualties, a Palestinian security

A drone attack launched by Yemen’s Houthi group on an oil field in eastern Saudi Arabia yesterday caused a “limited” fire at a gas plant but had no impact on oil production, state-run oil company Saudi Aramco said.

A female Hajj pilgrim is killed and 17 others are injured as a bus carrying Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims is involved in a tragic road accident in Saudi Arabia.

Palestinian-American lawmaker Rashida Tlaib yesterday turned down Israel’s offer to let her visit her grandmother in the occupied West Bank, owing to restrictions she termed oppressive.

An Iranian tanker seized by Gibraltar last month is preparing to set sail after being released, a senior Iranian shipping official said yesterday.

A deal between the Taliban and the United States for US forces to withdraw from their longest-ever war in Afghanistan could drive some diehard Taliban fighters into the arms of the Islamic State militant group, Afghan officials and militants say.

Iran’s top diplomat said a US attempt at “piracy” had failed after a Gibraltar court yesterday ordered the release of a tanker carrying Iranian oil despite a US detention request.

A former Blackwater private security guard was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison after a retrial on murder charges for his role in the