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.
Israeli forces have destroyed the Beirut headquarters of Al Manar television and its affiliated radio station in strikes targeting the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. For those who believe in genuine press freedom, the reaction should not be mourning, it should be relief.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's largest cloud computing provider, has confirmed that two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates were "directly hit" by drones, disrupting services across parts of the Middle East.
The U.S. embassy in Riyadh was hit by two drones resulting in a limited fire and some material damage, the kingdom's defence ministry said in a post on X on Tuesday, citing an initial assessment.
Lebanon was pulled deeper into the war in the Middle East on Tuesday as the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah launched missiles at Israel for a second consecutive day and Israel sent troops into the south and carried out waves of airstrikes.
Qatar's Air Force shot down two Iranian SU-24 bombers on Monday after the Islamic Republic launched a direct military strike against the emirate's gas facilities, the Qatari Defence Ministry announced in an official statement.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wasted no time condemning the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, calling them a "clear violation of international law" during a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner in Ankara on Monday.
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