Middle East/Levant & Turkey

The blaze reportedly broke out at the Directorate of Security, before dawn, in the major Egyptian port city of Ismailia on the Suez Canal

'A sacrificial action was carried out against the Turkish Interior Ministry by a team from our Immortal Brigade,' the PKK said

'The villains who threaten the peace and security of citizens have not achieved their objectives and will never achieve them'

One of the terrorists was killed while the other blew himself up, the minister said

This step has raised expectations that a ceasefire, in place for nearly two weeks, can be maintained

Jean-Yves Le Drian, special envoy of French President Emmanuel Macron, has called upon Lebanese factions to explore alternatives for selecting a new president

The Turkish president also announces his plan to reciprocate with a visit to Israel, confirming previous reports by Israeli media

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) accuse fighters loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government of crossing into the area under cover of a bombardment

The meeting between Xi, Assad boosted the Syrian leader's campaign to return to the global stage while allowing China to advance its interests Middle East

The encounter occurred as part of President Assad's first official visit to China in nearly two decades, aimed at securing financial support for his country

The incident occurred at approximately 22:37 local time, with small arms fire heard in the vicinity of the entrance to the U.S. Embassy

China will be the third non-Arab state that Assad will have visited since before the Syrian war broke out over 12 years ago

'This attack constitutes a violation of Iraq's sovereignty,' says a senior defense official, adding 'Iraq reserves the right to put a stop to these violations'

The defendants face charges of rape, sexual coercion, forced sexual intercourse, sexual harassment, abduction, and indecent assault against a woman

With artillery support, amid factional fighting in the area, the Kurdish group infiltrated, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Erdogan's appeal to Musk is the latest in a series of efforts by world leaders seeking to attract one of the globe's wealthiest individuals

The EU's enlargement commissioner Oliver Varhelyi has said the bloc needed to see action on human rights issues before talks resumed

The first reported strike targeted a military site, the subsequent raid a research center

The Palestinian factions also agreed to 'work to facilitate the return of those forced from their homes, and vacate schools as soon as possible'

We Will Stop Femicide Platform has been campaigning against the murder and abuse of women in the mostly Muslim but officially secular Turkey

The Palestinian Red Crescent's Lebanon branch reported the toll as 'six dead, one of them killed on Monday, and more than 60 wounded'

Stray bullets have reportedly killed one, while reports indicate that an Islamist militant was one of the dead in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp

In response to the violence, numerous families, some with children, fled the camp's northern region