Netanyahu plays pre-election Trump card: settlement annexation
Palestinians voiced alarm while Israelis weighed the gravity on Sunday of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sudden election promise to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Turkey’s AK Party to seek recount of all Istanbul votes
President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party will ask Turkey’s top electoral board for a recount of all votes cast in local elections in Istanbul, a senior party official said on Sunday.
Attackers target checkpoint in eastern Saudi Arabia: Al Arabiya
Four attackers targeted a security checkpoint with guns and explosives in eastern Saudi Arabia as they tried to flee the country, leading to the death of two and the arrest of two others, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Sunday.
Haftar forces conduct air strike on Tripoli as U.N. calls for truce
Eastern Libyan forces carried out an air strike on the southern part of Tripoli on Sunday, escalating an operation to take the capital despite calls for a truce from the United Nations.
Factbox: Cyclone Idai’s death toll rises to 847, hundreds of thousands displaced
Hundreds of thousands of people are in need of food, water and shelter after Cyclone Idai battered Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Terrorist designation for Revolutionary Guards would end calm for U.S. military: Guards chief
The U.S. military will no longer have calm in west Asia if the United States designates the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, the head of the Guards, Mohammad Ali Jafari, was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency on Sunday.
U.N. calls for truce in southern Tripoli to evacuate wounded
The U.N. mission to Libya (UNSMIL) called on Sunday for a truce for two hours in southern Tripoli, where forces loyal to the country’s rival governments have been clashing, a statement said.
UK Novichok victim told all would have died if Russia was behind Salisbury attack
A British man whose partner died after being exposed to nerve agent Novichok was told by Russia’s ambassador that Moscow could not have been behind the attacks because they would have “killed everyone”, he told the Sunday Mirror newspaper.
U.S. seeks ‘quagmire’ with Iran in designating IRGC as terrorist group: Iran foreign minister
Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday U.S. officials aiming to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist group want to “drag the U.S. into a quagmire” on behalf of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Eastern Libyan forces carry out air strike in south Tripoli: sources
Eastern Libyan forces carried out an air strike on the southern part of the capital Tripoli on Sunday, a witness and an eastern military source said.
