The United States said Monday it was no longer seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but renewed warnings it would not fund reconstruction unless the regime is "fundamentally different."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest, Yair, tweeted on Sunday that Facebook blocked his page for 24 hours over apparent anti-Muslim posts

A car bomb killed at least eight people including four civilians near a pro-Turkey rebel post in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on

US President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan that Washington was working on extraditing a US-based Muslim

Israel's army yesterday said it has uncovered another Hezbollah "attack tunnel" leading from Lebanon into its territory, the fourth since it

Clashes shook Yemen's flashpoint city of Hodeida yesterday after air strikes and deadly fighting on the outskirts overnight, residents

UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday called for a "credible" probe into journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder in Saudi Arabia's consulate

Kurdish-led forces seized the Islamic State's main hub of Hajin, the largest settlement in what is the last pocket of territory controlled by

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel would be prepared to attack inside Iran if the Jewish state's survival was at stake.

A Palestinian shot dead two Israelis in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the military said, after security forces killed two Palestinian murder suspects, stoking fears of wider violence.

UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday announced a series of breakthroughs in talks with rivals in the Yemen conflict, including a ceasefire for a vital port.

At least 12 people were killed, including 8 civilians, after a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of security forces in Kabul early yesterday,

A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces yesterday near the flashpoint city of Hebron in the south of the occupied West Bank,

The refusal of the United States and Saudi Arabia and Russi to embrace a landmark environmental report has unsettled UN talks to breathe life back into the Paris climate pact, negotiators and observers said.

A United Nations conference adopted a migration pact in front of leaders and representatives from around 150 countries in Morocco yesterday, despite a string of withdrawals driven by anti-immigrant populism.

The United States wants to continue support to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's war and will remain engaged in efforts to combat Iranian influence and Islamist militancy in the Arab state, a State Department official said yesterday.

Qatar said its emir will skip a summit of Arab Gulf leaders in Saudi Arabia, which has spearheaded a boycott of the small but energy-flush neighbour and sparked a major regional diplomatic row.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said US sanctions were "economic terrorism", as he sought to foster a united front from visiting

A Yemeni government official yesterday said that Huthi rebels were "not serious" on finding common ground to end the devastating

A suicide car bombing followed by an armed assault killed at least two people and wounded many more outside police headquarters in the port city of Chabahar in restive southeastern Iran yesterday.