Israel’s hawkish veteran Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as prime minister Thursday after a stint in opposition, heading what analysts call the most right-wing government in the country’s history.

An attack in eastern Syria killed 12 oil field workers, a war monitor said yesterday, a day after Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced an offensive against jihadists.

Iran’s army was set to begin military exercises in strategic southern regions east of the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, state news agency IRNA reported.

Israel’s parliament yesterday passed controversial legislation paving the way for the return of veteran hawk Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.

Six Kurdish-led security force members were killed in an Islamic State suicide attack yesterday on a security forces centre in Syria’s Raqqa, the chief of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, wrote on Twitter.

Iran's Supreme Court has accepted the death sentence appeal of rapper Saman Seydi Yasin even as it confirmed a death sentence against another protestor, the country's judiciary said on Saturday.

Veteran leader Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had formed a new Israeli government, returning to power as the head of the most right-wing coalition in Israel’s history.

President Gabriel Boric of Chile, whose country has the largest Palestinian population outside of the Middle East, said Wednesday that he planned to open an embassy "in Palestine".

The United States imposed sanctions on Iranian officials on Wednesday, including the prosecutor general and key military officials, stepping up pressure on Tehran over its crackdown on protests.

Israel has unveiled pilgrims’ lamps and other finds from the so-called Tomb of Salome, a burial site named for a woman said to have assisted at the birth of Christ.

Iran’s Supreme Court has ordered a retrial for a young Iranian sentenced to death for his part in protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, the judiciary said yesterday.

Suspected militants on motorbikes stormed a village north of Baghdad late Monday and killed eight Iraqi civilians, officials said.

An oil tanker overturned and caught fire in Afghanistan's high-altitude Salang pass, killing 12 people and injuring dozens, officials said today.

At least seven members of Iraq's federal police were killed Sunday during an attack near Kirkuk in the country's north, two police sources told AFP, blaming Islamic State group jihadists.

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International called on Iran to end its executions of protesters in a letter published on Friday.

Courts in Tehran have sentenced 400 people to jail terms of up to 10 years over their involvement in protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, Iran’s judiciary said yesterday.

Researchers in the northern Gaza Strip have unearthed dozens of Roman-era tombs at a site discovered earlier this year during construction work, the Palestinian enclave’s Islamist rulers Hamas announced Monday.

The Islamic Republic yesterday hanged a man in public who state media said had been convicted of killing two members of the security forces, the second execution in less than a week of people involved in protests against Iran’s ruling theocracy.

Israeli forces shot and killed a 16 year-old Palestinian girl during a raid in the volatile city of Jenin yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said, as the wave of violence in the occupied West Bank this year continued.

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