An Israeli soldier was killed after ­Hezbollah launched rockets and a swarm of drones across the Lebanon-Israel border in retaliation for the targeted...

Syrian refugees in Turkey are bracing for more unrest after attacks on their homes and businesses during violent nationalist protests in cities across the...

Iran recorded its lowest election turnout when voters snubbed Ayotollah Khamenei’s pleas for “maximum participation” in the presidential poll on Friday. The...

Iranians are being urged to turn out in large numbers to elect a new president on Friday, in a vote that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has depicted as a referendum...

More than 1,300 pilgrims died in Mecca last week as they performed the haj in scorching heat, Saudi Arabia has said. Temperatures in Mecca, where almost two...

Almost two years on from a long-awaited honeymoon that ended in tragedy with his wife being “catapulted” to her death from a jet ski in the UAE, Joseph Danso...

A death sentence imposed on a prominent Iranian rapper who supported protests against the regime has been overturned by the country’s supreme court, his...

It could almost be described as biblical: the oldest evidence of a shipwreck ever found in the deep seas has been discovered off the north of Israel, dating...

Hundreds of Muslim pilgrims have died in Mecca as they performed the annual haj during a blistering heatwave. About 1.8 million Muslims descended on the holy...

As a “protected person of high risk”, Alejo Vidal-Quadras has several Metropolitan Police officers guarding the London hotel suite when we meet. But it is his...