Israelis kept up weekly protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, defying lockdown restrictions imposed by authorities aimed at stemming a surge in coronavirus cases. The parliament in Israel, which currently has one of the world's highest Covid-19 infection rates per...

Palestine Palestinians on Saturday called on international human rights groups to urgently put pressure on the Israeli authorities to save the life of Maher al-Akhras, a Palestinian detainee who has been on a hunger strike for 76 days in a row. The call came in a sit-in organized by the...

Mask wearing has become mandatory in public in the Iranian capital and violators will be fined, President Hassan Rouhani announced on Saturday as the country battles a third wave of coronavirus infections. The daily death toll from COVID-19 reached a record of 239 this week in Iran, the...

The Saudi-led coalition said Saturday it intercepted and destroyed two explosive-laden drones launched towards Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis. There was no comment from the Houthi movement about the two incidents reported by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, which cited a...