An Israeli court on Friday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to postpone giving testimony in his corruption trial, after US President Donald Trump said the case should be cancelled. Netanyahu’s lawyer on Thursday asked the court to excuse the leader from hearings over...

Lebanon’s health ministry said a woman was killed and 20 other people were wounded in an Israeli strike in the country’s south, despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. “The Israel enemy strike on an apartment in Nabatiyeh led to a preliminary toll of one woman killed and 11...

The Lebanese health ministry said an Israeli strike on south Lebanon killed one person on Friday, as Israel said it killed a member of Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. Israel has continued to carry out near-daily strikes on Lebanon despite a November ceasefire with Hezbollah and an...

Over two million Syrians who had fled their homes during their country’s war have returned since Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow in December, UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi said Thursday during a regional visit. The Syrian civil war, which erupted in 2011 with al-Assad’s brutal...