Israeli police issued an arrest warrant for a former aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, accusing him of being implicated in two affairs involving the premier's office.

The deadly clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters in Syria were an attempt to sabotage peace moves between Turkey and the PKK, the Kurdish militant group said Tuesday.

Israeli forces arrested two Israelis and a Palestinian on Tuesday who allegedly posed as soldiers to rob a jewelry shop in the southern occupied West Bank, the military and police said.

Syria's army told Kurdish forces on Tuesday to withdraw from an area they control east of Aleppo after dislodging fighters from two neighbourhoods in the city in deadly clashes last week.

A military escalation between the United States and Iran would have grave consequences for the region, Qatar said Tuesday after Washington threatened strikes in response to a government crackdown on protests in the Islamic republic.

By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

(THE CONVERSATION) Years of simmering tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates exploded into the open on Dec. 30, 2025.

Hamas said Sunday it will dissolve its existing government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over the territory, as mandated under the U.S.-brokered peace plan. But the group gave no specifics on when the change will occur.

Hamas and the rival Palestinian Authority, the Palestinians' internationally recognized representative, have not announced the names of the technocrats, who are not supposed to be politically affiliated, and it remains unclear if they will be cleared by Israel and the U.S.

Syria's government was in full control of Aleppo on Sunday after taking over the city's Kurdish neighborhoods and evacuating fighters there to Kurdish autonomous areas following days of deadly clashes.

Hamas is preparing to hold internal elections to rebuild its leadership following Israel's killing of several of the group's top figures during the war in Gaza, sources in the movement said on Monday.

Iran would strike U.S. military and shipping targets in the event of a new attack by the United States during an ongoing wave of protests, the parliament speaker said on Sunday.