In televised address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says police recommendation will ‘end with nothing’. Israeli police have recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust after months of investigation into two corruption cases. The recommendations on Tuesday will now go to the attorney general, who will decide whether to prosecute […]

Crackdown of government dissent appears to continue, as incumbent president, Sisi, looks poised for a second term. Egypt’s prosecutor-general has ordered an official investigation into a number of opposition politicians who are boycotting next month’s presidential election, as President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi looks set to extend his term. Nabil Sadeq, Egypt’s prosecutor general, said in a statement […]

Egypt steps up operations involving the country’s army, navy and air force, aimed at pushing armed groups. Egypt’s army said it has killed at least 12 more suspected fighters and arrested almost 100 in a major military operation launched in the northern Sinai Peninsula. The military released the latest figures on Monday, according to state […]

Palestinian man pursued by Israeli forces in Salfit district after stabbing a rabbi near illegal settlement of Ariel. An Israeli settler has been stabbed and killed in a knife attack outside an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank. The attack in the district of Salfit on Monday afternoon, on the main road near the Ariel settlement, […]

Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and several non-state actors, including the EU, promise to fund rebuilding in Iraq. International donors have pledged tens of billions of dollars to help Iraq rebuild after a four-year war against ISIL has left large swathes of the country in ruins. Iraq received $30bn in pledges to fund its reconstruction efforts, the […]

The battle for Mosul was a huge military operation to recapture Iraq’s second largest city from so-called Islamic State (IS). Mosul fell to IS in June 2014, with IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaiming the creation of a “caliphate” from its ancient and now destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers, Kurdish fighters, […]

Tillerson’s comments come during donor conference in Kuwait to support reconstruction and stabilisation efforts in Iraq. The fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group is far from over, the US secretary of state has said, urging unity among Arab countries in the Gulf for the sake […]

Egypt’s ex-top auditor says former army chief Anan possesses secret documents that would incriminate people in power. The Egyptian army has said it will launch an investigation into Sami Anan, the former Egyptian chief-of-staff and Hisham Genena, the country’s former top auditor, who had served as Anan’s presidential campaign manager prior to its suspension.  The Supreme […]

Figure includes 29 children and 28 women killed in air raids on Damascus suburb, war monitoring group reports. At least 23 people have been killed in Syrian and Russian air raids on the outskirts of the country’s capital Damascus. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the figure includes six children and four women […]

Figure cited by Iranian MP on state media much higher than previous estimates of number detained. About 3,700 people were arrested across cities in Iran as a rare wave of anti-government protests and unrest gripped the country, according to a parliament member. Tehran MP Mahmoud Sadeghi announced the official figure, which is much higher than […]