Israel's defense exports amounted to $7.2 billion in 2019, slightly down from $7.5 billion the previous year, the government said Monday.

A Syrian doctor living in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of crimes against humanity in his country of origin, prosecutors said Monday in the latest German move against suspected war crimes in Syria. 

Libya's U.N.-recognized Government of National Accord has denounced Egypt's warning of military intervention in Libya, labeling it a "declaration of war."

An Algerian soldier was killed during a clash with armed Islamists in the central region of Ain Defla, the defense ministry said Sunday, adding that an operation was still underway.

The Palestinian Authority has said it is temporarily closing the cities of Hebron and Nablus in the occupied West Bank to contain the spread of coronavirus after a sharp rise in infections.

Egypt's president has warned that advances by Turkey-backed Libyan forces on the Libyan city of Sirte could prompt an Egyptian military intervention in the neighboring country in support of Cairo's ally Khalifa Haftar. 

When Jacqueline Shahada was blinded in one eye during a Palestinian demonstration along the Gaza border, she never thought she would lose her husband and children too.

Yemen's southern separatists have seized control of the strategic island of Socotra, which had been in the hands of pro-government forces, and have begun implementing self-rule, officials on both sides said.

Libya's UN-recognised unity government has said it will boycott talks on the conflict in the North African country to be held by Arab League foreign ministers next week.

Four Syrian children, brothers from the same family, died Saturday when a fire swept through their tent on a farm near Amman, a Jordanian security source said.