Just before midnight Friday evening an Iron Dome anti-rocket battery shot down a Gazan rocket over the southern city of Ashkelon.

Putin and Abbas last met in April in Moscow where the two discussed peace and security issues in the Middle East.

Former Pentagon official Harold Rhode says Arab Muslims often thrive when living in non-Muslim communities in the West, meaning the obstacle holding them back is not the people but the society.

Questions over who will succeed Abbas raise the concern that his sudden departure could leave a power vacuum that would threaten the stability of the entire region.

Former Spice Girls singer is reportedly embarrassed of biblical verse inked down the nape of her neck.

Authorities use pipes to pump water from the Mediterranean Sea in apparent effort to curb the use of underground smuggling passages.

For Putin, Russia's bolstered military assistance in Syria is a potential diplomatic trump card and a handy way of diverting attention from Ukraine's frozen conflict.

Oil minister in the previous government was tasked with forming a new cabinet after former PM Ibrahim Mehleb submitted his government's resignation last week.