Israel risks going to war against Hezbollah to ensure Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival, but it would be a miscalculation that could lead to mass civilian deaths in both Lebanon and Israel, a former US military intelligence analyst has warned. Harrison Mann, who was a major in the Defense Intelligence Agency …

Iraq said on Monday it had arrested three people linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and suspected of planning attacks across the country, including on a key oil export pipeline in the north.Interior ministry officials showed reporters three suspects dressed in yellow jumpsuits with their faces covered by …

In-depth: Israeli demolitions in the Negev have intensified in the last six months, with up to 6,000 people in eight Bedouin villages at risk of displacement. In May, more than 300 Palestinians in Wadi al-Khalil became homeless overnight when Israeli bulldozers flattened the entire Bedouin village in the Negev. Now, …