The United States is focused on tracking down Hamas chief, Yahya Sinwar, amid a new push by the White House to help Israel declare "total victory" so it can bring an end to the war on the Gaza Strip, American officials have told Middle East Eye.

Several US allies within NATO are inching closer to sending military forces into Ukraine to train its armed forces, the New York Times has reported. Some American military contractors are already on the ground to repair Washington-supplied weapons systems.

Kiev has urged Washington to provide intelligence on targets on Russian soil, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces lose ground on the battlefield, the Wall Street Journal has reported, saying US administration officials have begun to review the request.

Iran's national men's Taekwondo team won the Asian championship by scooping 3 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.

More than 70 percent of British people back an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a new survey indicates as pressure rises on the government to adopt a firmer stance against Israel.

A popular French radio station has claimed that Ankara is suspected of stirring unrest in the overseas French territory of New Caledonia, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean near Australia.

Irans President Ebrahim Raisi will jointly inaugurate with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev a dam on the Aras River on Sunday.

Iranian discus thrower Hamed Amiris silver medal at the 2024 World Championships in Tokyo was stripped after several other competing athletes made technical objections.

The Palestinian group Hamas has rejected Washington's establishment of a temporary floating pier designed to increase the amount of aid getting into the besieged Gaza Strip as a publicity stunt to beautify its ugly face".

Secret military documents obtained by Middle East Eye revealed the scale of Egyptian operations to destroy tunnels between the Sinai peninsula and the Gaza Strip built to circumvent the Israel-imposed blockade of the enclave.

Some 12 percent of US security aid provided to Ukraine from January 1 through March 31 was delinquent or unaccounted for, the US Defense Department Inspector General has announced in a quarterly oversight report of US support for Ukraine.

Moscow has no intention of capturing the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which is close to the Russian border, President Vladimir Putin has claimed. The remarks came as the Russian armed forces have been making notable gains in the area in recent days.

The Israeli military has announced the discovery of the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas in the October 2023 attack.

Huge rallies took place in 10 cities across Iran to pay tribute the 8th Shia Imam Ali Ibn Moussa al-Reza, whose shrine is in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad.

Irans permanent representative to the UN Amir Saeed Iravani strongly rejects US claims that the Islamic Republic is supplying arms to Yemens Ansarullah movement.

Torrential rains once again trigger flash floods in Irans northeast.

The Republic of Azerbaijans Foreign Ministry has announced it is moving it embassy in Tehran to a new location and will resume its diplomatic activities after it shut the premises over a year ago.

Renowned Iranian actress Zahra Khoshkam, whose acting career spanned over five decades, passed away at the age of 77 on Friday. The cause her death was not publicized.

The spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Kanaani, has condemned as unacceptable the clause related to the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf in the statement of the 33rd meeting of the Arab League leaders in Bahrain.

Irans ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations Amir Saeed Iravani says his countrys impartial position since the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict has remained unchanged.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have agreed to strengthen ties across energy, trade, security and geopolitics, as both parties displayed their close relationship against the backdrop of regional unrest.

South Africa has urged an end to Israel's "genocidal" war in the Gaza Strip and for its attack on the southern city of Rafah to be halted, in a new submission at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted the military condition in the northeastern Kharkiv region was "extremely difficult", but still "under control", after a meeting with his military chiefs near the front line.

The Arab League has called for the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force in the occupied Palestinian territory at a summit dominated by the war on the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday revealed plans to send additional troops to join an ongoing ground attack in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, defying international calls for a halt to the invasion.