Iran's foreign minister accused the United States on Friday of trying to divert attention from its own responsibility for the deadly war in Yemen with claims of Iranian weapons shipments.

Fraud squad detectives questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Jerusalem residence on Friday, the seventh time in a nearly year-long corruption probe, reports said.

US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley presented what she called "undeniable" evidence Thursday that a ballistic missile fired by Huthi rebels in Yemen at Saudi Arabia last month was Iranian-made, a charge Tehran immediately denied.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will visit Egypt and Israel next week, despite controversy and meeting cancellations as a result of the administration's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

The U.N. mediator at Syria peace talks in Geneva has "undermined" his position by appealing to Moscow to convince Damascus to hold new elections, the Syrian government's top negotiator said Thursday.

Iraq has begun reconstruction work at what was the country's biggest oil refinery before it was damaged by intense fighting between government forces and Islamic State group jihadists, the oil ministry said Thursday.

The head of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas called Thursday for fresh protests across the world against U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Syria's Kurds fear the steadfast ally they found in the U.S. to successfully take on Islamic State group jihadists may now leave them to face threats from Turkey and Damascus alone.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have held rare talks with Yemen's al-Islah party, ignoring its close links with the Muslim Brotherhood as they review strategy against Shiite rebels.

Yemen's Huthi rebels have freed the journalists and staff of Yemen Today, the TV channel of the country's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the rebel-run Saba news agency said.