Yemen's Saudi-backed government and its Houthi enemies are escalating an economic war as peace efforts stall, with tit-for-tat moves aimed at disrupting state oil revenues and fuel flows, leading to more humanitarian pain. The Houthis, de facto authorities in north Yemen, have hampered the   Details..>>

The UN special envoy for Syria warned on Tuesday that the current military escalation in Syria is dangerous for civilians and regional stability, and he urged Turkiye and Kurdish-led forces in the north to de-escalate immediately and restore the relative calm that has prevailed for the last thre   Details..>>

Iranian security forces have killed at least 378 people — including 47 children — in a crackdown on protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, a rights group said in an updated toll Saturday. The Islamic republic has been gripped by protests that erupted over Amini’s deat   Details..>>

Iran has for the first time reported that more than 300 people have died in over two months of protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in morality police custody. The Islamic republic has deployed state security forces against what it labels “riots” that broke out after the 22   Details..>>

  The Arab Monetary Fund has signed a $1-billion agreement to support Yemen's economic reform programme to its Saudi-backed government, Saudi state media said on Sunday. The new package by the Abu Dhabi-based fund, which includes countries from the Middle East and North Africa, will provide s   Details..>>

U.N. Security Council members urged Yemen's Houthis to renew a truce that expired in October and to engage in substantive talks to end the more than eight-year-old conflict. "I want the parties to the conflict to not only renew the truce but – crucially – to commit to taking steps   Details..>>

At least 21 people were killed and several others injured when a fire broke out in a building where residents attended a party in the Gaza Strip, health and civil emergency officials said on Thursday. Footage circulated on social media and witnesses said the whole residential building caught fire   Details..>>

 The Navy says it seized enough material to fuel more than a dozen ballistic missiles when warships from the 5th Fleet intercepted a fishing vessel heading from Iran to Yemen. The Navy found more than 70 tons of ammonium perchlorate, commonly used to make rocket and missile fuel as well a   Details..>>

At least six people were killed and 53 injured in an explosion on Sunday in a popular tourist area of Istanbul. Videos posted on social media showed bodies lying on the ground in the city’s busy Istiklal Street following the blast at around 4:20 p.m. local time. Confirming casualty num   Details..>>

Syrian regime rocket fire killed nine people including three children at makeshift camps for displaced people in the country’s last major rebel-held bastion early Sunday, a war monitor said. The dead included three children among seven civilians, and two unidentified individuals, said th   Details..>>