Yemen crisis Saudi-led coalition forces have carried out an air strike on an airport in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Monday. The coalition claimed that the airport’s facilities were being used to launch cross-border attacks. Yemen has been engulfed in a civil war between Islamist rebels and the government since 2014. Rebel forces […]
A search is under way for suspected Palestinian gunmen over a deadly attack on a car carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank. A 25-year-old passenger, Yehuda Dimentman, was killed and two other occupants were wounded in the shooting near a Jewish settlement in the north. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said every effort was […]
Gidi Kleiman BBC News, Jerusalem We’ve head a lot from France today about new restrictions on UK travellers, but the country is not alone in taking action. Israel will designate the UK and Denmark as countries on its Covid-19 “red list” at midnight due to concern over the spread of the Omicron variant. Israeli citizens […]
A former employee of Qatar’s 2022 World Cup organisers who raised concerns over migrant workers has lost his appeal against a conviction for corruption. A court in Doha sentenced Abdullah Ibhais to three years in prison after it upheld a guilty verdict on the charge of misappropriating state funds. Ibhais said security forces coerced him […]
Former US President Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on his once-close ally, ex-Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of disloyalty. Mr Trump said he was furious at Mr Netanyahu for the way he congratulated Joe Biden on his election victory, using an expletive towards him. He also said he believed he saved Israel […]
Syrian civil war Israel carried out a rare air strike on Syria’s main port of Latakia, destroying shipping containers and causing a fire, Syrian state media say. A Syrian military source told Sana news agency that warplanes flying over the Mediterranean Sea fired several missiles at the port’s container yard overnight. No casualties were […]
Lebanon’s information minister, whose criticism of the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen caused a major rift with Gulf states, has resigned. George Kordahi said he was doing so in “the interests of my country and my people”. Comments he made weeks ago outraged Saudi Arabia, which expelled Lebanon’s ambassador and banned its imports, dealing a […]
Iran nuclear deal Israel’s prime minister has urged world powers to immediately end nuclear talks with Iran, after it decided to start using advanced machines to enrich uranium at an underground plant. Naftali Bennett warned the US that Iran was “carrying out ‘nuclear blackmail’ as a negotiation tactic”. Iran said diplomats in Vienna “won’t take instruction” […]
An Iraqi member of the Islamic State (IS) group has been found guilty of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority in a landmark German trial. A court in Frankfurt sentenced Taha al-Jumailly to life for crimes including the murder of a Yazidi girl in Iraq. The court found the jihadist enslaved the five-year-old in 2015, […]
Iran nuclear deal Critical talks with Iran to prevent the collapse of a nuclear deal are to resume in Vienna after five months. Officials will discuss the possible return of the US to the 2015 accord, which limited Iran’s nuclear activities in return for the lifting of sanctions. Iran has violated key commitments since […]
