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A flight from Dubai to Israel made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after a brawl broke out in the cockpit, with the pilots hospitalised due to injuries upon arrival, a statement by the international airport of Tabuk reported Wednesday. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that one pilot had allegedly stabbed the other and attempted to crash the plane.
The current deployment began in 2014 in an effort to combat 'Islamic State' extremists. Iran, which has sought a complete removal of the US military from the Middle East, celebrated the withdrawal.
US forces are withdrawing from their remaining bases in Iraq on Wednesday, completing a pullout agreed under former president Joe Biden as fears grow over the security vacuum it could leave. Iraqi officials and analysts warn the departure could embolden Iran-backed militias and give Islamic State group fighters room to rebuild their capabilities.
Qatar's top diplomat says Israel has undermined Doha's efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza from 'day one'.
More than 100 Israeli settlers stormed a village in the occupied West Bank early on Tuesday, setting fire to Palestinian properties and wounding three members of Israel's security forces. The raid, which drew rare government condemnation, came as the military attempted to accompany a Palestinian family back to their home after they had been displaced by earlier settler attacks.
A video posted in mid-September showing Iranian police officers beating and sexually harassing an arrested teenage boy has caused widespread outrage in Iran. Experts say such mistreatment of people accused of common crimes is frequent in Iran, but the footage provides rare visual evidence of what they describe as a recurring practice within the police force.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran expects Washington to respond to its proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. In exchange for reopening the vital shipping route, Tehran is seeking guarantees including a regional ceasefire, the lifting of sanctions on its oil sector and an end to the US naval blockade.
The U.S. and Iran are reportedly talking separately to mediators as part of renewed efforts to end the conflict, with regional mediators pushing for ceasefire negotiations.
Luckin is weighing a push into Middle East markets while deepening its foothold in Southeast Asia, with backing from sovereign wealth funds in both regions.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he expected talks with Iran to resume next week, despite rejecting Tehran’s proposal for a seven-day truce followed by the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump raised the possibility of renewed air strikes on Iran but also said he anticipated further negotiations.
Israel will revoke the diplomatic accreditation of Dutch officials based in the occupied West Bank after the Netherlands began enforcing a ban on goods from Israeli settlements, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Sunday. The officials have seven days to surrender their Israeli-issued diplomatic papers, he added.
Oliver McTernan, Director and co-founder of Foward Thinking in London, is our guest.
To help children process their experiences of war, an art center has been established in the West Bank.
Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Yossi Mekelberg, Senior Consulting Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Can Israel continue to define its future primarily through security and territorial control? Mekelberg challenges the notion that military operations, incursions and settlement expansion can constitute a sustainable political objective. He identifies a potential transition beyond the Netanyahu era as an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between Israeli and Palestinian societies. His central argument is that the continuation of war without a politica
US President Donald Trump has reportedly rejected an Iranian plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi presented the proposal to Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff a day earlier on the sidelines of a UN gathering in New York. The plan stipulated that the important waterway would reopen seven days after an agreement was reached.
Yemen’s Riyadh-based President Rashid al-Alimi on Friday called on his people to mobilise and join the armed forces while offering a general amnesty to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels who have seized swaths of Yemen's Red Sea coast and imposed a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia.
Lebanon's prime minister has told the UN that the withdrawal of peacekeeping troops risks creating a vacuum. Leaders from Pakistan and Iraq are also speaking on day four of a conference dominated by the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia intercepted Houthi ballistic missiles on Thursday after warning several regions, including Mecca, of possible attacks. France said it would send military assets to help protect the Saudi oil terminal at Yanbu. The strikes came amid renewed fighting in Yemen that has killed dozens, according to sources cited by AFP.
The Israeli leader labels those who left his speech at the UN General Assembly as "moral cowards".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a combative speech at the UN General Assembly on Thursday in which he denied that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, lashed out at leaders, including New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and said attacking Iran was "one of the easiest decisions" he had ever made.
