Foreign Desk Team

With the arrival of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a packed week of trips to Israel by…

Egypt wants the Gaza stabilisation force envisaged in US President Donald Trump’s peace plan to be led by…

US envoy Tom Barrack has said Syria and Lebanon are the “next two vital pieces” in moves towards…

While the Middle East was on tenterhooks this week waiting to see if the latest ceasefire would hold…

Hamas to respond to Trump plan for Gaza ‘soon’Gaza has become a ‘hellscape’, says humanitarian groupIsrael carries out…

Gulf states plan to increase intelligence sharing, develop new missile warning systems and hold joint air defence drills…

Israel’s plan to forcibly evict one million people from Gaza city, half of Palestinian territory’s population, is “impossible”…

Doctors in Gaza are alarmed by the spread of a rare nerve disorder that has left at least…

Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah of Jordan announced on Sunday the reactivation of the country’s national military service.…

Iran will keep on talking to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the country’s deputy foreign minister said after the…

Hamas is open to negotiating a comprehensive Gaza deal that would end the war in the Palestinian enclave…

Just back from Gaza, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa’s voice faltered as he recounted the horror of seeing a mutilated…

Team Trump’s week of ‘Bibi-sitting’ in Israel to protect Gaza truce