Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the first killing in the occupied West Bank during Ramadan as the army said it targeted an armed suspect.

The Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers spoke by phone to mark the beginning of Ramadan, vowing to meet “soon” to implement a landmark bilateral reconciliation deal, Riyadh said yesterday.

The oldest known near-complete Hebrew Bible was presented to the press on Wednesday in Tel Aviv, where it will be displayed for a week before going under the hammer in New York.

Five migrants from sub-Saharan Africa drowned and another 28 were missing Wednesday after their boat capsized off Tunisia, a rights group said. “Five migrants’ bodies were recovered and five other migrants were rescued, but 28 are still missing,” said

At least 10 soldiers were killed in renewed fighting in Yemen, military sources told AFP, despite diplomatic efforts to halt the long-running war in the Arab world’s poorest country.

An Israeli missile strike destroyed a suspected arms depot used by Iran-backed militias at Syria’s Aleppo airport yesterday, a war monitor said, with authorities saying the strike put the airport out of service. It was the second such attack in a month on the

An Israeli court yesterday extended the months-long house arrest of a Palestinian journalist from annexed east Jerusalem, who stands accused of incitement over her Facebook posts, her lawyer said.

The Iranian government has proposed to Saudi Arabia three locations for a meeting at foreign minister level, Iran’s foreign minister said yesterday, citing the latest messages with Riyadh since the countries agreed to re-establish ties.

Israel’s ambulance service said one man had been seriously wounded when his vehicle came under fire in a flashpoint town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank yesterday, without giving details on the identities of those involved.

Iraq and Iran signed a border security agreement yesterday, a move Iraqi officials said aimed primarily at tightening the frontier with Iraq’s Kurdish region, where Tehran says armed Kurdish dissidents pose a threat to its security.

Israeli and Palestinian officials were meeting in Egypt yesterday for talks aimed at calming surging violence that has stoked fears of further escalation once the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins later this week.

Kuwait's constitutional court on Sunday nullified last year's legislative elections and ruled in favour of reinstating the previous parliament disbanded in June, state media said

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian Friday in what the army described as an attempted “stabbing attack”, bringing the number of people killed in the conflict this year to 100.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he will only meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if Turkey withdraws troops from northern Syria, according to a Russian media interview published yesterday.

Saudi Arabia could start making investments in Iran “very quickly” after they agreed to restore diplomatic ties, the Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said yesterday, despite sweeping US sanctions against the Islamic republic.

Flash floods killed at least 13 people living in tents and container housing set up across Turkey’s quake-hit region yesterday, piling more pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of crunch elections.

Hunger and malnutrition are rising sharply in Syria and more than half its population is short of food after 12 years of war, economic pressures and last month’s earthquake, the World Food Program said yesterday.

Saudi Arabia will watch Iran’s behaviour during the two-month window agreed upon to restore relations, Saudi columnists said yesterday, reflecting continued wariness in the longtime rivalry between the region’s Sunni Muslim and Shia powers.

Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian gunmen in a pre-dawn firefight in the occupied West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian sources said yesterday, amid a surge in violence in the region.