Iranian authorities yesterday arrested four people in connection with an assault on a woman outside a girls’ school targeted in a wave of poisoning attacks, a news agency said.

Dozens of schoolgirls in Iran were hospitalised yesterday after a mysterious poisoning, an Iranian news agency reported, the latest in a spate of suspected attacks in the Islamic republic.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday counted the cost of deadly violence and arson by Israeli settlers targeting a town where two Israeli brothers were killed.

Jordan hosted a meeting between top Israeli and Palestinian officials yesterday to try to halt surging violence, an official said, as Washington and its Arab allies seek to defuse tensions that have led to concern of a wider escalation.

Turkey has begun work to rebuild homes following this month’s devastating earthquakes, as the combined death toll in Turkey and Syria surpassed 50,000.

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Central Turkey yesterday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said.

An Iranian general warned his country is still seeking to kill former US president Donald Trump and his secretary of state Mike Pompeo in revenge for assassinating top commander Qasem Soleimani. Tehran has repeatedly vowed to avenge the killing of

Israel launched air strikes on Gaza in return for rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave yesterday, a day after the deadliest Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank in nearly 20 years.

Israel launched air strikes on Gaza in return for rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave yesterday, a day after the deadliest Israeli

Hours earlier, rockets fired from Gaza lit up the night sky and triggered sirens in the Israeli cities of Sderot and Ashkelon, Al Jazeera said adding there were no reports of casualties at the time

Iran imposed sanctions Tuesday on 36 individuals and entities from the European Union and Britain in reaction to similar measures against Tehran over its response to months-long protests.

Turkey has launched a temporary wage support scheme and banned layoffs in 10 cities yesterday to protect workers

Israeli troops killed ten Palestinians, including at least three gunmen and three civilians, and wounded over 100 others during a raid on a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank yesterday, witnesses and medical officials said.

The Israeli army said the raid targeted militant suspects "in a hideout apartment" accused of shootings in the West Bank, and that its troops came under live fire but suffered no casualties

Six people were killed in the latest earthquake to strike the border region of Turkey and Syria, authorities said yesterday, two weeks after a massive quake killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday it was up to Iran to engage to resolve a deadlock over its nuclear programme, and accused it of enabling Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Turkey yesterday the United States will help “for as long as it takes” after deadly earthquakes two weeks ago, as Turkish authorities carried out wide-scale demolition of damaged buildings.

Israel will not authorise new settlements in the occupied West Bank in the coming months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said yesterday.

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded yesterday in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, the hardest hit by a February 6 tremor which left more than 41,000 dead in the country, the disaster response agency AFAD said.

Rescue efforts in earthquake-hit Turkey were winding down yesterday, nearly two weeks after the country’s deadliest disaster in the modern era, with many praying only for bodies to mourn.