West Asia

Voting has begun in Lebanon's first parliamentary election in nine years, with over 500 candidates vying for 128 seats.

Hundreds of Thousands of Yemeni people gathered at the Bab al-Yemen square in the capital city Sanaa on Friday to participate in a mass rally under the slogan “Al-Quds (Jerusalem), the land of Muslims and their first Qibla”, in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in support of al-Quds.

A prominent host on Israel’s Army Radio said he was “ashamed” to be an Israeli citizen after the killing of 18 Palestinians by Israeli gunfire near border with the Gaza Strip.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has refused to deploy British troops to military action against Syria without further investigations on Saturday's chemical attack in Douma.

Russia and Syria say Israeli warplanes struck an air base in the Syrian province of Homs and that Syrian air defense systems shot down five of eight missiles fired.

Palestinian protesters are gathering at Gaza’s fence for what is expected to be the largest anti-occupation rally since last Friday, when the Israeli military shot and killed 20 unarmed demonstrators.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Syrian people have shattered the myth of invincibility of the Israeli regime through their resistance against Tel Aviv’s acts of aggression during past years.

Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters have targeted a Saudi Arabian warship in retaliation to deadly airstrikes on the improvised country's province of Hudaydah.

The largest convoy of evacuated militants and their families has departed Syria’s Eastern Ghouta as the Syrian army presses ahead with a counterterrorism operation in the suburban area near Damascus.

Bahraini forces have reportedly arrested at least 32 people during separate raids on a number of houses across the kingdom in the past 24 hours as the ruling Al Khalifah regime intensifies its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents.

Palestinian media outlets released an image of Iran’s Qods Force commander General Ghassem Soleimani' visiting Lebanon’s Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States is complicit in Saudi war crimes in Yemen amid Washington's baseless claim that Tehran is providing supply of ballistic missiles to Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement.