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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an unannounced visit to Israel on Monday, Axios reported, citing two sources with knowledge of the meeting.

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President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran would not make the deal he thinks is needed to end a war with the US and should surrender as talks between the countries remained stalled.

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The airport in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, was attacked again on Saturday and evacuated, two regional officials said, two days after three Saudi citizens including a pilot were killed as the kingdom faces an extraordinary series of assaults in the new front in the Iran war.

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A Syrian court has sentenced the country’s former president, Bashar al-Assad, and his brother, Maher al-Assad, to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the country’s 14-year civil war, in which about half a million people were killed.

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The United States has denied visas to some members of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s delegation, including members of his communications team, ahead of this week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to Iranian state media.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists he has rejected President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza and will not withdraw forces until the Palestinian group Hamas fully disarms, risking more obstacles in the increasingly complex efforts to reduce escalation on multiple fronts in the region.

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Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority recorded a 96 percent occupancy across its three economic zones in the first half of 2026, while the number of companies operating within them rose 13 percent year on year, the authority said.

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Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed a joint defence agreement, stating that an attack on one of them will be seen as an attack on all three.