West Asia

Israel has targeted a Syrian military site in the Aleppo countryside in a missile attack causing structural damage.

Syrian military air defenses have repelled an Israeli attack on the country's Quneitra province, Syrian state media report.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Israel Katz have agreed to promote a rail link with Saudi Arabia, Israeli media reports say.

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner met with Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday regarding the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Reuters reports.

Voting has begun in Lebanon's first parliamentary election in nine years, with over 500 candidates vying for 128 seats.

Hundreds of Thousands of Yemeni people gathered at the Bab al-Yemen square in the capital city Sanaa on Friday to participate in a mass rally under the slogan “Al-Quds (Jerusalem), the land of Muslims and their first Qibla”, in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in support of al-Quds.

A prominent host on Israel’s Army Radio said he was “ashamed” to be an Israeli citizen after the killing of 18 Palestinians by Israeli gunfire near border with the Gaza Strip.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has refused to deploy British troops to military action against Syria without further investigations on Saturday's chemical attack in Douma.

Russia and Syria say Israeli warplanes struck an air base in the Syrian province of Homs and that Syrian air defense systems shot down five of eight missiles fired.

Palestinian protesters are gathering at Gaza’s fence for what is expected to be the largest anti-occupation rally since last Friday, when the Israeli military shot and killed 20 unarmed demonstrators.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Syrian people have shattered the myth of invincibility of the Israeli regime through their resistance against Tel Aviv’s acts of aggression during past years.

Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters have targeted a Saudi Arabian warship in retaliation to deadly airstrikes on the improvised country's province of Hudaydah.