2+ hour, 57+ min ago  (891+ words) The US government has ordered all non-essential staff to leave its embassy in the Lebanese capital of Beirut after a security review, a senior State Department official has told the BBC. The decision comes as there are heightened tensions in…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (768+ words) Arab and Muslim governments have condemned remarks made by the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who suggested Israel would be justified in taking over a vast stretch of the Middle East on Biblical grounds. In an interview with conservative…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (546+ words) Students at several universities in Iran have staged anti-government protests - the first such rallies on this scale since last month's deadly crackdown by the authorities. The BBC has verified footage of students marching at the Sharif University of Technology in…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (469+ words) At least 10 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on eastern Lebanon, according to state media. A senior Hezbollah official was among those killed, the Iranian-backed militant group said in a statement. Israel's military said it was targeting sites…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (543+ words) Several countries which have signed up to Donald Trump's Board of Peace have contributed more than $7bn (5.2bn) towards a Gaza "relief package", the US president has said. Trump made the announcement during the first meeting of the organisation that many of…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (771+ words) Hamas is holding an election for a new interim leader, a senior Palestinian official familiar with the armed group's affairs has told the BBC. Voting is taking place across Gaza, the occupied West Bank and among Hamas's members elsewhere. The…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (621+ words) President Donald Trump says the world will find out "over the next, probably, ten days" whether the US will reach a deal with Iran or take military action. At the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace in Washington DC,…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (684+ words) A group of 34 Australian women and children who have been held in a camp in northern Syria for nearly seven years due to their links to the Islamic State (IS) group were released on Monday to head home, but then…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (379+ words) Two female Israeli soldiers had to be rescued by police after being chased by a crowd of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men. Footage from the city of Bnei Brak showed the women running through streets strewn with rubbish and overturned bins as…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago  (575+ words) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the US must require Iran to relinquish all of its enriched uranium and be barred from enriching more, as part of any nuclear deal with Tehran. In a speech in Jerusalem on Sunday, he…...