Middle East

Houthi missiles have reportedly hit the presidential palace used by the Yemeni government in Aden, with local officials saying two guards have been killed.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main election rival Gadi Eisenkot has vowed to end Hamas’ rule in the Gaza Strip if he is elected in this month's election.

Iran's military forces consider a new attack by the United States a ‘realistic possibility.’

An influencer is ‘suffering terribly’ inside a Dubai jail while waiting to find out if she will be executed for murdering her boyfriend.

Iran has long backed the Houthis, a Yemeni militia, and it made the offer as Saudi Arabia contends with increasingly deadly attacks from them.

A UN report alleged that the Australian engineer was subject to extreme cold, humiliation, threats of death and forms of psychological abuse, including being shown a torture room.

The Australian Government has issued an urgent warning to travellers after deadly missile strikes rocked a major international airport.

A US military fighter jet has struck a ‌commercial cargo ship in ‌the Gulf of Oman after the vessel's crew attempted ‌to defy the naval blockade against ​Iran.

More than a dozen ambulances have been seen rushing to Riyadh’s international airport and travellers were evacuated from parts of the facility after a loud blast was heard.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard has struck a LNP tanker attempting to take an ‘illegal route’ through the Strait of Hormuz.

Australian travel advice agency Smartraveller have downgraded its travel advice to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar just days after an alleged hijacker attempted a terrorist attack in the region. 

The co-pilot who attempted to hijack a flydubai flight last week had planned to crash the aircraft into Israel as early as July, according to regional officials with knowledge of the investigations. 

Israelis mourned at the site of the Nova Music Festival, as well as at bomb shelters, intersections and in communities targeted in the deadliest day in the nation’s history three years ago.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to seize the opportunity to associate himself with the heroics of Israelis who helped stop a FlyDubai co-pilot from crashing a plane bound for Tel Aviv.

Technological advances in warfare have heightened concerns about the vulnerability of air bases and other hard-to-protect military facilities in populated areas.

Houthi fighters in Yemen say they have struck a facility belonging to oil company Aramco in ‌the capital of Saudi Arabia.

The co-pilot who tried to crash a FlyDubai passenger jet on Wednesday was ‘suicidal’ and ‘underwent Islamic radical indoctrination,’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says.

THE WASHINGTON POST: Captain Smit Machchhar once said he had planned to join his family’s textile business before being bitten by the ‘aviation bug’.