A car-ramming and stabbing attack left one person dead and three injured on Tuesday near Israeli settlements in the southern occupied West Bank, Israeli emergency services and the military said. Paramedics and an army medical force "established the death of a man aged 30 with a
CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt annulled parliamentary votes in over a quarter of first-round constituencies on Tuesday in one of the most significant disruptions to a national election in recent years. Polls opened last week for the first of two rounds to elect the final parliament of
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -One man was killed and three other people were injured in a car ramming and stabbing attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli military and ambulance service said, in what Israeli authorities described as a terror attack. The Israeli
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi ALEPPO, Syria/AMMAN (Reuters) -Syria on Tuesday began the first trial of suspects in a wave of bloodshed in March during which pro-government fighters killed hundreds of members of the Alawite minority - a case seen as a test of President Ahmed
By Alexander Cornwell and Timour Azhari TEL AVIV/RIYDAH (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia's defacto ruler Mohammed bin Salman is set to press U.S. President Donald Trump to personally intervene to help end the war in Sudan during talks in Washington on Tuesday, five people familiar with
DUBAI (Reuters) -Russian state conglomerate Rostec said on Tuesday that its defence exports fell by half since 2022 as domestic orders became a priority amid the fighting in Ukraine, but expects recovery soon. Until 2022 Russia held second place in the world after the United
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two Democratic U.S. senators wrote to President Donald Trump's administration on Monday raising "serious concerns" about Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff's potential financial conflicts of interest.
By Alexander Cornwell and Nidal al-Mughrabi TEL AVIV/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for Hamas to be expelled from the region, a day after the U.N. Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump's plan to end the war that offers
GENEVA (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called the passing of a U.S.-backed resolution on Gaza an important step in the consolidation of the ceasefire, in a statement sent to reporters. The UN Security Council on Monday voted to adopt a
Washington canceled a planned visit by Lebanon’s army commander Gen. Rodolphe Haykal, signaling growing US frustration over Lebanon’s delay in disarming Hezbollah.
The public mood in Turkey against Israel, and also against its tiny Jewish community, is so vitriolic that outspoken Erdogan faces constant criticism for being too soft. The Turkish president is hoping that sending peacekeeping troops to Gaza will squash his opponents' claims
The UN's World Food Programme warned Tuesday that funding cuts mean it will struggle to feed even a third of the 318 million people facing severe hunger in 2026. "Declines in global humanitarian funding are forcing WFP to prioritise food assistance to roughly one third of those
The expected sale to Saudi Arabia of American stealth F-35 jets, as well as their sale to Turkey, deeply worries Israel’s security apparatus.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian representatives will not take part in talks on Ukraine in Turkey on November 19, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said earlier he would go to Turkey on Wednesday in an attempt to revive negotiations with Russia on
CAIRO (Reuters) -A Gaza company that operates water desalination plants serving nearly half of the enclave's population has stopped operations to protest at the detention by Hamas of one of its staff. Youssef Yassin, a board member of the Abdul Salam Yassin Company, said the
Israel on Tuesday hailed Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan after its endorsement by the UN Security Council, as Hamas rejected the resolution which calls for the deployment of an international force in the Palestinian territory. The United Nations Security Council voted on Monday
KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he planned to go to Turkey on Wednesday in an attempt to revive talks with Russia on how to end the war in Ukraine. A Turkish source said that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff would also visit Turkey on Wednesday and join the
MANILA (Reuters) -Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin said on Tuesday the U.N. Security Council's adoption of a resolution endorsing U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza was a necessary first step on a long road toward peace. The Security
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia welcomes the UN Security Council's adoption of a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza and establish an international stabilisation force, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. On Monday, foreign
By Steve Holland, Matt Spetalnick and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will roll out the red carpet for Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, on Tuesday for a visit expected to advance the sale of F-35 fighter jets and a
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will receive a lavish welcome from US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, signing defense and nuclear deals during his first visit to the United States since the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump is expected to roll out the
Many people in Western Sahara hope Morocco's long-discussed autonomy plan for the area -- now backed by the UN Security Council -- will accelerate development and end the half-century-long territorial dispute. Its main city of Laayoune, with modern apartment blocks built among
By Gram Slattery, Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump is willing to sign legislation to impose sanctions on Russia as long as he retains ultimate decision-making authority over any such measures, a senior White House official said on
(Reuters) -Hamas rejected the United Nations Security Council passing a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza plan, saying it fails to meet Palestinians' rights and demands and seeks to impose an international trusteeship on the enclave that
The approval of the proposal is expected to create momentum for its establishment and pave the way for further implementation of Trump's plan. Hamas responded by saying it will not disarm, while Trump hailed the vote as 'acknowledging and endorsing the BOARD OF PEACE, which
(Reuters) -At least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention since the Gaza war erupted in October 2023, a rights group said on Monday, alleging torture and medical neglect and calling for an international investigation. A report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed he would deal with the violent "handful of extremists" among Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, following clashes and another attack on Monday. Homes and vehicles in a Palestinian village were torched on Monday evening,
Defense officials are concerned that the Israel Air Force will lose its air superiority in the Middle East if the United States sells the stealth jets to Saudi Arabia. The sale could potentially defy Israel's qualitative military edge, as mandated by U.S. policy
The deal could rattle Washington's ties with Israel and is not likely to be approved by Congress unless conditioned on Saudi normalization of ties with Israel.
The US-drafted resolution also endorses the Trump-led Board of Peace and references possible statehood for the Palestinians.
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Monday he plans to approve the sale of U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, speaking a day before he hosts Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a day of diplomacy. "I will say that we will be
By Howard Goller and Ali Sawafta (Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he will urgently convene cabinet ministers to ensure Israelis behind the latest attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are brought to justice. In violence on Monday,
The final results of last week’s election showed Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s list winning 46 seats in parliament, the most of any party, though he is not guaranteed to remain in his current role.
(Reuters) -Iraq confirmed final election results on Monday, showing Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s list came first with 46 seats in the 329-member parliament, the election commission said. A new government could still be months away amid wrangling to build a majority.
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said on Monday it would take at least two months to reach initial findings and analyse the black box of a Turkish cargo plane that crashed in Georgia last week and left 20 soldiers dead. The C-130 cargo aircraft had left
The deal marks a notable fusion of the Trump family’s traditional real estate business and its expanding foothold in the crypto world, and arrives a day before Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince arrives in Washington.
Amendments introduced last week under pressure from Arab and Muslim states, as well as several Security Council members, include a reference to the possibility of establishing a future Palestinian state – after which Netanyahu reiterated Israel's opposition to such a state
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain set out plans on Monday to toughen its asylum system, with measures such as making refugee status temporary and reinterpreting human rights laws to make it easier to deport migrants who arrive illegally. The moves are a bid to stem the rise of the
(Refiles to add dropped word in headline, replace second subhead) By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Tim Cocks and Nellie Peyton CAIRO (Reuters) -Gazans said they paid $2,000 per seat to fly their families to South Africa on a trip arranged by a group offering a way out of the devastated
South Africa said Monday the surprise arrival of 153 Palestinians on a plane last week indicated "a clear agenda to cleanse Palestinians" out of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The group landed in Johannesburg on a chartered flight on Thursday without departure stamps from