A blast from an explosive device yesterday killed three members of Iraq’s security forces and wounded three others in the northern province of Salaheddin, officials said.

Saudi Arabia has executed more than 100 foreigners this year, according to an AFP tally indicating a sharp increase which one rights group said was unprecedented.

An Israeli strike on a building in a densely populated district of central Beirut yesterday killed Hezbollah’s media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters, though there was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman yesterday “categorically” denied The New York Times report on Tehran’s ambassador to the United Nations meeting with US tech billionaire Elon Musk, state media reported.

Israel launched a wave of air strikes on Hezbollah bastions in Beirut and south Lebanon yesterday, a day after Lebanese government officials said they were studying a US truce proposal.

An Iranian court sentenced six men to death for killing a paramilitary force member during 2022 protests over a Kurdish woman’s death in custody, Fars news agency reported.

Israeli forces launched airstrikes on Hezbollah-controlled areas in Beirut for a third consecutive day yesterday, hitting locations in the capital’s southern suburbs early in the morning after a night of heavy bombardments.

Arab and Muslim leaders demanded on Monday that Israel withdraw from occupied Palestinian territories as a precondition for regional peace, while denouncing "shocking" Israeli crimes in war-ravaged Gaza

Iranian security forces yesterday killed at least three people during clashes with jihadists in the country’s restive southeast, state media reported, following a deadly attack on police last month.

The United States charged an Iranian man on Friday in connection with an alleged plot ordered by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, the Department of Justice said.

Iran yesterday urged US President-elect Donald Trump to reconsider the “maximum pressure” policy he pursued against Tehran during his first term.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) killed four more militants during an operation in the country’s southeast region where jihadists killed 10 police last month, state media said yesterday.

Hezbollah said it targeted a naval base near the Israeli city of Haifa with missiles yesterday, the second such attack in less than 24 hours.

The UN Human Rights Office said yesterday nearly 70 percent of the fatalities it has verified in the Gaza offensive were women and children, and condemned what it called a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law.

Israel conducted air strikes on Hezbollah’s main bastion in south Beirut yesterday, with one raid hitting an area near Lebanon’s only international airport.

A senior Hamas official told AFP that the United States under Donald Trump, who won in the US presidential election, must end its “blind support” for Israel in the offensive in Gaza.

Israel’s military issued new evacuation orders in the north of the Gaza Strip yesterday after carrying out strikes across the enclave which Palestinian media and medics said had killed at least 35 people.

The Israeli military said yesterday it had killed a top Hezbollah commander it accused of overseeing rocket and anti-tank missile attacks against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.

At least 31 people were killed during Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip yesterday, Palestinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army has waged a month-long campaign it says aims to prevent Hamas regrouping.

Iranian demonstrators yesterday gathered outside the former US embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 hostage crisis that has for decades shaped relations between Washington and Tehran.