Middle East

Witnesses and Gaza Strip hospital officials have accused Israeli troops of shooting dead at least 36 Palestinians near an aid distribution hub.

The United States' envoy to Turkey says Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire supported by Turkey, Jordan and neighbours.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel ‘deeply regrets’ ammunition hitting a Catholic church in Gaza, killing three people, and says there will be a probe.

More than 60 people are dead, most of them from suffocation, after a fire tore through a newly opened mall in eastern Iraq.

An Israeli-backed American organisation in Gaza says 20 Palestinians have died after being crushed at a food distribution centre.

Dramatic footage has shown the terrifying moment two television reporters had to run for cover after Israel bombed Syria’s defence military headquarters in Damascus.

EXPLAINED: Israeli warplanes struck Syria’s capital, Damascus, on Wednesday, targeting the presidential palace, the defence ministry and the army command following an outbreak of violence.

Clashes have raged in the southern Syrian city of Sweida after a ceasefire between government forces and Druze armed groups collapsed and as Israel threatens to escalate its involvement.

The United Nations says more than 800 people have been killed trying to access aid in Gaza since May.

MAX BOOT: Trump has promised more weapons, new tariffs and even a deadline for peace — a move that could mark the beginning of a radically different approach to Putin’s war.

Israel has reportedly pledged to reduce its military presence in Gaza as indirect negotiations with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Qatari capital Doha stall. 

Several people, including children, have been killed at a Gaza Strip water distribution site in an Israeli attack that the military says fell ‘dozens of metres from the target’.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he’s hopeful a new Hamas hostage deal can be made in the next ‘few days’.

At least 16 people, including 10 children, have been killed by an Israeli strike that hit near a medical centre in Gaza, as ceasefire talks drag on.

Hamas says it will release 10 hostages as part of ongoing ceasefire talks in Gaza, but called the negotiations ‘tough’, blaming Israel’s refusal to compromise.