Mena Today

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed that he phoned Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in July 2025 to demand an end to the killing of Druze in Syria's Sweida province. 

Tens of thousands of people are expected to protest across France on Saturday, as students, trade unionists and remnants of the Yellow Vest movement join forces to demonstrate against high prices and the country's fraying social model.

Missiles struck Yemen's Aden International Airport on Friday, while a Saudi-led military coalition said it had intercepted a ballistic missile headed for the Red Sea city of Yanbu, a key Saudi oil hub that allows exports to avoid the Strait of Hormuz.

King Mohammed VI on Friday named the members of Morocco's new government, led by Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, the first woman to head a government in the country's history. 

The United Nations aviation agency has found Lebanon's main airport lacks valid certification, according to a report summary seen by Reuters, in a setback to US President Donald Trump's move to revive direct US-Beirut flights.

Iraq has lost about $60 billion since the war in the Middle East began, its foreign minister said on Friday, as the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz cut deeply into the country's oil exports.

A majority of Israelis would prefer a unity government to a repeat election if the October 27 vote fails to produce a clear winner, according to a poll for the daily Maariv. The same poll puts the governing and opposition blocs level, and neither is close to a majority.

Organisers insist the Future Investment Initiative (FII) will open in Riyadh on October 26. After a week of Houthi attacks on the capital's airport, few expect it to.

Italy has extended by another week its suspension of the European Union's border-free travel arrangements with Spain over a surge in migrant arrivals in Ceuta in late July, an Italian government source said on Friday.

President Donald Trump said the US may have to target Pickaxe Mountain, a site linked to Iran's nuclear program, as he aims to ensure Tehran does not get a nuclear weapon. 

Avigdor Liberman does not do ambiguity, and with twelve days to go before Israel's October 27 election he has made his position plainer still.