Jordanian authorities have arrested a man suspected in the killing of a former intelligence official this week, according to the country’s public security directorate. A Hibis al-Hanayneh, a former official in the Jordanian intelligence service, was shot dead outside his home in Amman...

Iraq’s firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday rejected a secret vote in parliament on the new cabinet lineup. “The people want to reform the system through an honest government with independent technocrats supervised by the prime minister-designate without pressure from...

Israeli forces rounded up 16 Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military on Wednesday. The individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities”, the army said in a statement, without elaborating on...

At least one Palestinian seriously injured in the head on Tuesday by Israeli army gunfire near the buffer zone between Gaza and Israel, according to the Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry. “A [Palestinian] citizen has been seriously injured in the head by occupation gunfire on the...