Middle East

The 56-year-old killer confessed to killing 12 elderly men after temporarily marrying them; Iranian law allows the victims' families to replace death sentences with the payment of blood money (diya)

Arab state reportedly urged another potential Israel-normalization country to sign deal with Israel, then go to war ‘when time is right’

Hezbollah faced with unprecedented financial crisis as US sanctions and tighter Lebanese banking controls squeeze the group’s funding according to The New York Times

Aged 71, Mohsen Rezaei has been wanted by Interpol since 2007 for his role in the attack on the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sources tell i24NEWS: Leadership, organizational, and media changes are underway within Mohammed Dahlan’s movement in Gaza, alongside preparations for an electoral list and the possibility of running

The pact is treating an armed attack on any one country as an attack on all three

The explosion occurred in Jaramana, a suburb with significant Druze and Christian communities

Saudi Arabia says 11 civilians, including a child, were injured in an overnight Houthi attack targeting the Najran region

A report reveals a preliminary agreement to establish a military site inside Gaza to accommodate 150 Moroccan soldiers, as part of new security arrangements for an international force in the Strip

According to the report, the meeting lasted only a few minutes, contradicting previous public accounts that described a two-and-a-half-hour meeting between the two leaders in May

Iran expects that, during the negotiating period, it would receive sanctions relief allowing it to resume oil exports, according to sources to PBS News

Several Jewish British donors who made donations to institutions in Israel beyond the Green Line have already received notices that investigations have been opened against them

As mediator of the Board of Peace's Gaza initiative, Mladenov's public remarks have exposed the razor-thin line between diplomatic ambiguity and political backlash

With the Houthis' fresh blockade threat against Saudi-linked vessels announced last month, shippers are again showing signs of pulling back

The UN also warned that more than 100 other people are currently at risk of execution on similar national security charges

Investigator found that the responding military force was too small for the scale of the incident and that additional soldiers in the area failed to develop a comprehensive operational picture

Kurdish-Jewish analyst Elyana Elyan and former ISIS hostage Aram Aqil tell i24NEWS that formal recognition would preserve the victims’ memory and strengthen the shared fight against jihadist extremism

Pressure mounts on Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi as hardliners challenge the government’s handling of the war and negotiations with Washington

Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem also expressed support for the deployment of the Lebanese Army south of the Litani River amid evolving Lebanese-Syrian relations

Russian oil shipments to Syria jumped 75% to about 60,000 barrels per day this year, making Moscow the dominant crude supplier to Syria

Proposed agreement would establish separate maritime corridors for inbound and outbound vessels, though US officials dispute claims that ships would pay Iran security-related fees

The mediators warned that continued hostilities risk reversing recent de-escalation efforts while further worsening the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip

Under the proposal, Oman would clear outbound vessels after notifying Iran, giving Tehran visibility over departing traffic and the ability to intervene if necessary

The tremor was felt across parts of Israel, though no casualties or damage were reported