Middle East

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’.

Unsettling new details have emerged of the Omani co-pilot accused of a terrifying bid to plunge a passenger jet and all 174 on board into the Saudi desert.

Members of a prominent Australian family were reportedly passengers on board the international flight where an attempted hijacking took place on Wednesday.

AARON PATRICK: Flight 1703’s survival is a warning that security measures designed to defeat terrorism after the 9/11 attacks may need to be reconsidered.

Passengers have been hailed heroes after storming the cockpit and overpowering a pilot accused of stabbing his captain and trying to crash the jet.