Mena Today

The Israeli military has issued a stark ultimatum to representatives of the Iranian regime operating in Lebanon: leave within 24 hours or face the consequences.

Here are statistics released by Gulf defence ministries on drones and missiles that Iran has fired at their territories since the start of the U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran.

The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has announced the reopening of Nasdaq Dubai, effective Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 10:00 am Gulf Standard Time, following a period of closure amid the regional conflict convulsing the Middle East.

A major Israeli airstrike destroyed the headquarters of Jamaa Islamiya in the northern district of the Lebanese city of Sidon on Tuesday afternoon, according to the French-language daily L'Orient Le Jour. 

Qatar has carried out strikes against Iran over the past 24 hours in direct retaliation for Tehran's attacks across the Gulf, Israel's Channel 12 reported Monday, citing unnamed Western sources familiar with the matter. 

Iran's ongoing conflict with the U.S. and Israel has led to sporting events being postponed in several countries, while competitions elsewhere have been hit by travel disruption, with thousands of flights cancelled in some of the world's busiest transit hubs.

The U.S. on Monday imposed sanctions on the Rwanda Defence Force and top military officials over their role in ongoing fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and called for their immediate withdrawal from the mineral-rich region. 

Israeli authorities are using container ships to bring back dozens of essential medical staff stuck abroad after the air war with Iran broke out on Saturday, disrupting travel, according to Israel's cargo firm ZIM Shipping.

Britain has yet to decide whether it will send a warship to defend its Royal Air Force Akrotiri base in Cyprus, a source close to the matter said on Tuesday after the Times newspaper reported ministers had discussed such a deployment.

A Tunisian court on Tuesday sentenced the country's richest businessman, Marouan Mabrouk, to 20 years in prison, and former prime minister Youssef Chahed to six years, in separate corruption cases, lawyers said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said work was underway with the United States to lift sanctions imposed on Ankara before the U.S. midterm elections in November, but added Israel was opposed to the potential move.

For decades, Dubai's sales pitch featured gleaming skylines, tax-free salaries, ease of doing business and something far more intangible: the unspoken promise that whatever was happening elsewhere in the Middle East, this city was different. The conflicts that destabilised the region would somehow stop at Dubai's borders.