Ronen Bar, the new head of Israel's internal security service, discussed security coordination and the Gaza Strip with Abbas, as part of a series of meetings with key security officials in the region

Top Israeli officials met with U.S. envoy on Iran, Robert Malley, and U.S. ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, as Washington prepares for another round of negotiations to revive the nuclear deal

Attacks on weapons shipments and Iranian interests in Syria don't appear to be of much concern to Assad either, and the Americans have more pressing matters to attend to – including the NSO scandal and Israel's response to it

Public university students are also barred from campuses if not vaccinated against COVID, according to government rules

The king and Mansour Abbas, a member of Israel's governing coalition, met in Amman and discussed peace agreements, the two-state solution and Jordan's custodianship of Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites, Jordanian state media says

Dispute threatens to undermine Lebanon's new government after minister's comments on war in Yemen anger Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries