Two Palestinians have been killed and 15 injured during an Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say. The Israeli military said its troops responded to fire from Palestinian gunmen as they apprehended “terrorist suspects”. One soldier was injured. The raid came after a man from a nearby […]
Five people have been shot dead by a Palestinian gunman in a suburb of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, in the third deadly attack of its kind in a week. It happened on Tuesday evening in Bnei Brak, one of the country’s most populous ultra-Orthodox Jewish areas. The gunman was shot dead by police, […]
Foreign ministers from four Arab League countries, along with the US secretary of state, are holding an historic meeting in Israel. It is the first time the ministers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Morocco and Bahrain will meet their Israeli counterpart in his home country. It comes after they normalised relations with Israel for […]
Four people have been killed and several others wounded in an attack in southern Israel, police say. Three were stabbed to death outside the BIG shopping center in Beersheba, while a fourth was rammed by a vehicle driven by the assailant, they say. The attacker was shot dead by a bus driver. Local media reports […]
Syrian civil war Syria’s president has made his first trip to an Arab country since the Syrian civil war began 11 years ago. Bashar al-Assad arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday, and met several influential and controversial rulers who signalled a willingness to strengthen ties with Syria again. It marks a […]
By Hazel Shearing & Mary O’Connor BBC News Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case British-Iranian nationals Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori will be reunited with their families later after being freed from Iran. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe will return to her husband and seven-year-old daughter, who plans to show her mother new toys when she returns to the UK. “It’s going to be […]
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards force says it targeted an Israeli “strategic centre” with missiles that struck the Iraqi Kurdish city of Irbil overnight. Twelve missiles hit areas around the US consulate overnight, causing material damage and wounding one civilian, the Kurdistan Regional Government said. The US said no Americans were hurt and that its facilities were […]
Saudi Arabia says it executed 81 men on Saturday – more than during the whole of last year. The group – including seven Yemenis and one Syrian national – were convicted of “multiple heinous crimes”, including terrorism, state news agency SPA said. Some were charged with belonging to the Islamic State group (IS), al-Qaeda or […]
The Islamic State (IS) group has named a new leader after confirming the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Qurayshi. An audio message posted online said Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi was now “caliph”, without providing any further details about his identity. The message did not mention how, where or when Abu Ibrahim al-Qurayshi died. The US has […]
At least 11 people have been killed in a fire at a shopping centre in the Syrian capital, Damascus, the interior ministry has said. It happened at the La Mirada Mall on al-Hamra Street overnight on Tuesday, state news agency Sana reported. Two people had been rescued, AFP news agency quoted the interior ministry as […]
