Mena Today

The leaders of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's Mossad met Qatar's prime minister in Doha on Tuesday.

Belgian and Moroccan police have arrested in Morocco a suspect in an extortion case that led to the closing of schools in Belgium due to a bomb alert, the country's prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.

Israeli forces and Hamas fighters appeared to be abiding by a truce for a fifth morning on Tuesday, after a four-day ceasefire was extended at the last minute for at least two days to let more hostages go free.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's visit to Turkey has been postponed, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news reported on Tuesday.

Elon Musk, on a visit to Israel after being assailed for an anti-Jewish post on his social media site X, received a symbolic dog-tag from the father of an Israeli taken captive by Hamas in Gaza and promised to wear it until all the hostages were free.

Israel will almost certainly have to decide whether to destroy Hamas completely or save the remaining hostages.

Iran has finalised arrangements for the delivery of Russian made Sukhoi su-35 fighter jet.

Syria's delegation to the United Nations climate summit in Dubai will be headed by its prime minister, a delegate said, 

An Israel-Hamas truce in the Gaza Strip stretched into a fifth day on Tuesday as the two sides completed the release of Israeli hostages and detained Palestinians.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received photos of the White House, Pentagon and U.S. aircraft carriers in the naval base of Norfolk, taken by its recently launched spy satellite, state media KCNA said on Tuesday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel, the West Bank and the United Arab Emirates this week.

A complaint for "torture" and "arbitrary detention" has been filed in Austria against the Emirati president of Interpol, Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi.