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Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militia claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Tuesday on a container ship in the Red Sea and for an attempt to attack Israel with drones.

Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza will likely go on for many months, the country's military chief said on Tuesday.

The United Nations on Tuesday announced the appointment of a coordinator to oversee humanitarian relief shipments into Gaza.

Israel's military chief, asked on Tuesday about a reported Israeli strike that killed a senior adviser in Iran's Revolutionary Guards in Syria, declined to comment but said Israeli forces work throughout the region.

Iraq's government on Tuesday condemned overnight U.S. air strikes on Iraqi military positions that it said killed one serviceman and wounded 18 people, calling them a "clear hostile act".

Iraqi authorities on Tuesday found the bodies of a Kuwaiti and a Saudi national resident in Kuwait who had gone missing while on a hunting trip in a desert area of Iraq.

The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission approved Sweden's NATO membership bid on Tuesday.

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian spoke by phone with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman al-Safadi about the situation in the Gaza Strip.

Security forces are searching for two Kuwaitis who were kidnapped while on a hunting trip in a desert area in Iraq, two security officials said on Monday.

Members of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) have signed a fully-fledged free trade agreement with Iran, Russia's economy ministry and the EEU said on Monday.

On Monday, Gulf Arab states welcomed the announcement of a new commitment by warring parties in Yemen to observe a new ceasefire and work towards peace.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant held a security assessment in Northern Command and said, "we won't allow to revert to October 6 reality".