Middle East

The United States will roughly halve the number of troops it has deployed in Syria to less than 1,000 in the coming months, the Pentagon said Friday. Washington has had…

US strikes on a Yemeni fuel port killed at least 80 people, Huthi rebels said, in the deadliest attack of Washington’s 15-month campaign against the Iran-backed group. Strikes on Ras…

Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria’s debts to the World Bank, three people familiar with the matter said, paving the way for the approval of millions of dollars in…

An Israeli military official said that reserve pilots, who publicly called for securing the release of hostages even at the cost of ending the Gaza war, would be dismissed from…

The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, has said it is up to Iran to decide whether the recent deployment of American B-2 stealth bombers to a joint base in the…

The United States issued fresh sanctions on Iran on Wednesday, the Treasury Department said, two days after President Donald Trump announced the US planned direct talks with Tehran over its…

The US and Iran will hold “direct talks” over a possible nuclear deal on Saturday, says Donald Trump. The meeting has also been confirmed by Iran’s foreign minister who said…

Israel has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip and five more in the West Bank in the past 24 hours, Palestinian officials have said. It comes as a fragile…

Gunmen loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad killed 48 security personnel, in attacks it described as the “most violent” since the longtime president’s ouster. The fighting took place in the Mediterranean…

The US and Israel have rejected an Arab plan for the post-war reconstruction of the Gaza Strip that would allow the 2.1 million Palestinians living there to stay in place.…