Israel said it fired back on Sunday after anti-tank missiles launched by Hezbollah struck its territory in Lebanon, raising fears of a serious escalation after a week of rising tensions. Hezbollah claimed it destroyed an Israeli military vehicle and killed and wounded those inside, but...

Iran on Sunday unveiled a jet-propelled drone it said is capable of finding and attacking targets far from the country's borders with precision. Dubbed the "Kian", the unmanned aerial vehicle was designed, produced and tested by experts of the air defence force within about a year, said the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, he said on Sunday, reiterating an election promise made five months ago but again giving no timeframe. Settlements are one of the most heated issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

 French President Emmanuel Macron has talked with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and urged Tehran to show restraint amid rising tensions in the region. Macron's office said Saturday that the French leader asked Iran to "take necessary measures" to encourage negotiations in Yemen's...

Israel’s military said on Saturday it had ordered extra forces to deploy to its northern command and postponed a training exercise as tensions remained high with Lebanon’s heavily armed Shi’ite movement Hezbollah. The army said that over the past week its “ground forces, air, navy and...

 Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah Saturday denied Israeli claims about his party having factories to produce precision-guided missiles in Lebanon, saying such "lies" were an attempt to justify Israeli attacks against the country. In a televised speech Nasrallah said the...

Iran’s foreign minister accused the United States on Twitter on Saturday of engaging in “piracy and threats” to stop Tehran from selling oil to traditional clients, after Washington blacklisted an Iranian oil tanker that it said was headed to Syria. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said...

A senior Iranian official said on Saturday the United States had shown flexibility on the licensing of Iranian oil sales and this was a sign that Washington’s “maximum pressure” policy against Tehran had been defeated, state media reported. French President Emmanuel Macron paved the way at...

A young Palestinian man on Saturday succumbed to wounds he sustained from Israeli gunfire a day earlier, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.  In a statement, the ministry said Badr al-Din Nabil, 25, was injured during anti-occupation protests east of the city of Khan Younis...

At least 75 Palestinians were injured Friday during protests in eastern Gaza. Palestinians converged near a fence that divides the Gaza Strip and Israel after Gaza’s National Authority for Return and Breaking the Siege (NARBS), which organizes weekly rallies, called on Palestinians to...

An Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. on Friday again listed its destination as Turkey but the Turkish foreign minister added to the confusion by saying the vessel is headed to Lebanon — statements that were promptly denied in Beirut as America's top diplomat alleged it still would head to...

Iraq's government is preparing a complaint to the U.N. after finding Israel is "certainly" behind several attacks on Hashed al-Shaabi bases, a parliamentarian and leading member of the paramilitary force said. The Hashed has blamed both Israel and the U.S. for a string of blasts and...

Three human rights groups are urging Egyptian authorities to immediately release an Egyptian-Palestinian activist who was arrested last month for alleged ties with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. The International Federation for Human Rights, The Cairo Institute for Human Rights...

Lebanon has not received any docking request from Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1, whose seizure had been requested by the United States, the energy minister said on Friday. "The energy ministry does not buy crude oil from any country and Lebanon does not own a crude oil refinery. There...

 The United States on Thursday sanctioned Lebanon-based Jammal Trust Bank SAL and its subsidiaries for allegedly facilitating the financial activities of Hezbollah, according to the Treasury Department, which said the bank funnels money to the families of suicide bombers. Separately,...

An Iranian rocket exploded on its launch pad at Imam Khomeini Space Center in northern Iran before its scheduled launch on Thursday, an Iranian official said. The launch was due to have taken place despite U.S. warnings to Iran that it should avoid such activity. “It was due to some...

Concern is mounting over the possible return of extremist groups to Gaza after explosions rocked two police checkpoints Tuesday. Some political analysts say Israel may be behind the blasts, in light of the ability of Israeli intelligence to utilize extremist groups to spread chaos and...

Shaban Khalaf’s advice to any other Gazans thinking of heading to Europe in search of a better life, as he did, is blunt: don’t bother - it’s not worth the danger and the expense. Khalaf should know. Despairing of ever finding a decent job in Gaza, where the economy is near collapse, the...

Iranian tanker Adrian Darya, at the center of a dispute between Washington and Tehran, has changed course away from the Turkish coast, Refinitiv ship tracking data showed Thursday. The tanker, formerly called Grace 1, was released from detention off Gibraltar in mid-August after a five-week...

Israel accused Iran Thursday of stepping up efforts to provide its Hezbollah allies in Lebanon with precision-guided missile production facilities, a veiled warning to Beirut that Israeli counter-strikes could escalate. Israel and Hezbollah, which last fought a war in 2006, are on high...