Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey yesterday signed a joint defence agreement in Makkah, wedding Sunni Muslim US allies alarmed at a regional conflagration that has rained missile fire onto Gulf oil exporters.

Agreement commits three countries to collective deterrence against armed aggression

Attacks mark one of the deadliest clashes since 2022, officials say

Iran warns Gulf states US strikes will trigger attacks on them

Any control over strait would be major concession to Iran

US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace on Monday assured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel’s withdrawal in Gaza would only begin after Hamas’s complete disarmament, following his objections.

Israel yesterday voiced objections over a plan promoted by President Donald Trump to end the Gaza war, with a cabinet member seeking to tear it up, defying pressure to end strikes and begin pulling forces from the Palestinian territory.

Iran’s military said yesterday it launched drone strikes targeting US military facilities in Kuwait, as fighting resumed between Washington and Tehran in the Middle East war after a nearly week-long lull.

An Israeli airstrike yesterday killed a senior officer of the Hamas-run Palestinian internal security service in the Gaza Strip and an associate as they travelled in a vehicle through Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, medics and police officials said.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels yesterday claimed a missile attack on Saudi Arabia, opening a new front as conflict between US and Iranian allies intensified.

Four Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in a shooting incident in the occupied West Bank yesterday, according to Israeli and Palestinian health officials.

Iran flew Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders, advisers, and missile‑ and drone‑related equipment into Yemen this month, according to four sources, in a move seen as bolstering Houthi capabilities to threaten Red Sea shipping.

A vessel belonging to a Saudi company was hit while transiting the Red Sea

Dubai will offer more than $800 worth of discounts and deals to residents who bring friends and family to visit, the emirate’s media office said yesterday, as months of war have battered its tourism sector.

Dubai will offer more than $800 worth of discounts and deals to residents who bring friends and family to visit

Doctors and displaced families in Gaza say the highly contagious disease has surged in recent months as war has forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into cramped tent camps with no clean water for hygiene

Gaza’s civil defence and hospitals said Israeli attacks on Saturday killed 11 people across the territory, among them three children and their parents.

Archaeologists uncovered a 3,000-year-old tomb near the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, authorities said on Sunday, the latest in a series of discoveries that officials hope will boost tourism.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Tuesday they had carried out missile and drone strikes on Bahrain, after the Gulf country urged citizens to take shelter as a siren sounded

Fighting paused in the Middle East yesterday after two days of deadly strikes between the United States and Iran, as Qatari negotiators travelled to Tehran in an attempt to get diplomacy back on track.