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The reduced Joint Arab List and Ra’am are two of many parties vying for citizens’ votes in the election for the 26th Knesset, to be held on October 27.
Israel Police arrested eight suspected arsonists in the southern Hebron Hills on Monday night, the police confirmed on Tuesday.
President Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran is ready to return to the terms of an interim agreement reached with the United States in June, which was aimed at ending the war, if Washington also does the same.
Stock futures are set to start the new month on the backfoot - having weathered a variety of challenges to post a gain for August - with tech lagging as a global selloff pushes yields to the highest level since 2008. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are down 0.6%, while Nasdaq futures slide 1.2% following a reports of a…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday reiterated his country's willingness to return to talks with the US, but made clear that Washington must return to its prior commitments made.
Palestinos, subidos a un camión cargado de alimentos y ayuda humanitaria del Programa Mundial de Alimentos, a su llegada al norte de la Franja de Gaza, el 16 de junio de 2025. (AP Foto/Jehad Alshrafi, archivo)
A large explosion in north-western Syria killed at least five people on Tuesday, state media reported.
A large explosion in north-western Syria killed at least five people on Tuesday, state media reported.
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Vice President JD Vance emphasized the importance of the American-Israel relationship, pinned rising antisemitism on immigration, and sidestepped a question about podcasters like Tucker Carlson during a highly anticipated, closed-door appearance at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual summit on Monday.
A vehicle loaded with ammunition exploded in the town of Binnish in the Idlib countryside in northwestern Syria, according to the Syrian authorities and a security source quoted by Syria’s official news agency, SANA.
Following the first strikes in the US-Iran war for a month, this week, United States President Donald Trump appeared to signal a new phase in the war, which marked its first six months on Friday last week.
FILE -Palestinians ride on a truck loaded with food and humanitarian aid from the World Food Program, after it arrived in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
A 33-year-old Modi’in Illit man was indicted in the Central District Court on Tuesday for allegedly committing an indecent act against a girl of approximately 12 after offering her a ride and driving her to a nearby forest.
Multiple private schools in east Jerusalem are on strike as of Tuesday until further notice, after Israel reportedly failed to renew entry permits for more than 70 teaching staff, according to a statement issued by the schools’ owners on Monday evening.
Two supertankers carrying Saudi oil were struck by unknown projectiles within minutes of each other while transiting outbound through the Strait of Hormuz late on Monday, according to shipping intelligence and tracking firms Marisks and Kpler.
WWE is returning to Saudi Arabia, with Crown Jewel set to take place in Riyadh on November 7.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has asked Greece to help ensure the full implementation of a US-mediated agreement with Israel aimed at ending hostilities.
The US State Department has approved Iraq's request to buy combat and utility helicopters, along with related equipment and services, totalling about $800 million.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has offered an olive branch to US President Donald Trump even after several soldiers and civilians were killed in an US strike on Larak Island.
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Israeli attacks on Gaza have escalated, with five Palestinians killed in the last 24 hours, the Palestinian health ministry is reporting.
New data has revealed that almost half of Britian's counterterrorism arrests since 9/11 coincided with the UK government's proscription of direct action group Palestine Action.
A food-allergy association petitioned the High Court of Justice on Monday to stop the Education Ministry from replacing medical-support aides assigned to children with life-threatening allergies with a single nurse serving an entire school.
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court extended the detention of a man suspected of involvement in placing sedative substances in baby fruit-puree jars until September 6, Israel Police said on Tuesday.
Two Arab men convicted of taking part in a violent mob attack on Jews near Jerusalem’s Lions’ Gate in May 2021 were ordered to pay their victims a total of NIS 180,000 in compensation, or NIS 60,000 to each victim, by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court on Monday
Two weeks after Israel bombed a Syrian base in the north to draw a red line against Turkish troops moving south, Ankara did exactly that, with no military response from Israel.
A car was destroyed by an Israeli strike in Gaza City's Rimal neighbourhood
Two supertankers carrying Saudi oil were struck by unknown projectiles within minutes of each other while transiting outbound through the Strait of Hormuz late on Monday, according to shipping intelligence and tracking firms Marisks and Kpler.
Every fourth Palestinian injured in Gaza since October 2023 lives with spinal cord or brain injuries, among other potentially life-changing conditions, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently estimated. Despite this, the entry of rehabilitation supplies remains restricted.
The Iran war is “relatively little” for the US compared with the vast amount of weaponry Washington gave Ukraine under Joe Biden, President Donald Trump has said. He claimed his predecessor handed Kiev $300 billion worth of arms for free.
Iraq has finished interrogating thousands of ISIS suspects transferred from Syria and is preparing to put them on trial, the Supreme Judicial Council said.
Peyvand Khorsandi was only four years old when he and his family left Iran for the United Kingdom in 1976, three years before the Islamic revolution.
Accenture has signed a six-year agreement with Amazon Web Services to help businesses and governments across the Middle East accelerate their shift to cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
El presidente de Irán afirmó que su país está dispuesto a volver al acuerdo de alto el fuego alcanzado con Estados Unidos en junio si Washington hace lo mismo, en unas declaraciones conciliadoras tras el primer intercambio de disparos entre ambas naciones en un mes.
China's President Xi Jinping is due in Cairo on Tuesday for his first state visit to Egypt in nearly a decade. It coincides with the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries and comes as Beijing is presented with openings in the Middle East that it has not had in years.
Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least three people, including two children and a woman, Al Jazeera reports.
At least four people have been killed and several wounded in Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, health officials said.
Iran’s president said Tuesday that his country is ready to return to the ceasefire deal reached with the United States in June if Washington does the same, in conciliatory remarks following the first exchange of fire between the two countries in a month.
Government bond yields jumped across major markets Tuesday, with borrowing costs in Japan and the U.K. touching multi-decade highs, and U.S. Treasury yields surging, as renewed Middle East hostilities reignite inflation concerns.
At least two Palestinian children have been killed in fresh Israeli attacks across Gaza, Wafa news agency reports.
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Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has ordered the exclusion of an anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox community from carrying personal firearms in Beit Shemesh, Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported on Monday.
China’s President Xi Jinping is visiting Egypt on Tuesday for a three-day visit that underscores China’s continued interest in the Middle East. MBN News noted it is his first visit to Egypt since 2016, adding that "it coincides with the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Egypt was th…
The IDF on Tuesday confirmed it was carrying out strikes on several targets in the Gaza Strip in response to threats against Israeli forces.
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A series of Israeli strikes has hit areas west of Gaza city in the northern part of the Palestinian territory amid conflicting reports of a commando operation targeting a Hamas unit.
DUBAI — Three "unknown projectiles" struck a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, a British maritime agency said Tuesday following a fresh flare-up in the US-Iran war.
On August 7, 2026, Colombia’s patriotic new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, was officially inaugurated, marking a monumental turning point in South American geopolitics. His rise to power represents a decisive rejection of the Left-Islamist alliance that has increasingly threatened the region. For nations fight…
Kurds in Syria are concerned that changes in the country may erode Kurdish language education that has been common in eastern Syria for more than a decade.