Comments by US President Donald Trump supporting a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict for the first time have turned heads ahead of UN speeches by the Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

An air strike appears to have killed 12 members of an Afghan family, most of them children, the United Nations said, citing preliminary

Dozens of migrants working on Qatar's $45 billion World Cup final city of Lusail have gone unpaid for months, Amnesty International

Saudi Arabia will begin issuing visas to visitors to attend sporting and cultural events from December, officials said yesterday, a first for the kingdom as it seeks to kickstart tourism.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday pledged to continue combatting Iranian "entrenchment" in Syria and coordinating with Russia after the downing of one of Moscow's planes.

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says that the attackers who killed 25 people at a military parade were paid by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and that Iran would "severely punish" those behind the bloodshed.

The deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Hossein Salami warns US and Israeli leaders to expect a “devastating” response from Tehran, accusing them of involvement in an attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused US-backed Gulf Arab states of carrying out a shooting attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, almost half of them members of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards.

Pro-Turkey rebels have cautiously accepted a Moscow-Ankara deal to prevent a Russia-backed regime attack on Syria's last major opposition bastion of Idlib, while a small jihadist group has rejected it.

Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday accused US-backed Gulf Arab states of carrying out an attack on a military parade that killed 29 people, almost half of them members of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards.

Lebanon's Hezbollah yesterday said it had acquired "precision missiles" despite extensive efforts by neighbour and foe Israel to prevent the Shiite movement developing this capability.

President Bashar al-Assad has blamed Israel for the downing of a Russian plane, which was accidentally hit by Syrian anti-aircraft fire during an Israeli missile strike.

An Iraqi court yesterday sentenced a prominent jihadist described as a deputy of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death on terrorism charges. Ismail Alwan Salman al-Ithawi was extradited from Turkey earlier this year having fled Syria as the group's self-proclaimed "caliphate" crumbled.

Thousands of residents of Syria's last major rebel bastion Idlib headed home within 48 hours of a deal being announced to avoid a government offensive to retake the province, a war monitor said yesterday.

Syria accidentally shot down a Russian military aircraft, killing all 15 crew members, when its air defences swung into action against an Israeli missile strike, Russian and Israeli forces said yesterday.

Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza border, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry said early yesterday,

The president of the Maldives appeared to accept lavish gifts from a billionaire developer who was later leased two islands in the paradise archipelago without bidding for them, a corruption watchdog alleged yesterday.

The United States has cut additional aid to the Palestinians for programmes supporting conflict resolution with Israelis, an official said Sunday, adding to more than $500 million in other cuts.

Egypt says archaeologists have discovered a statue of a lion's body and a human head in the southern city of Aswan.

A Palestinian fatally stabbed an Israeli at a shopping mall in the occupied West Bank yesterday before an armed civilian shot and wounded the assailant, Israeli police and medical officials said. The Palestinian was shot by a civilian at the scene and was in Israeli custody, a police spokesman said.