Middle East

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  Iran frees three more Europeans as part of a prisoner swap

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  Bobby Ghosh: What we can expect from the dynamic between Turkey and the West following Erdogan’s re-election

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  Recep Tayyip Erdogan re-elected for his third term as Turkish president

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  The Iranian nuclear facility so deep underground that it is beyond range of US ‘bunker buster’ bomb

• Militants killed in Israeli army attack on West Bank

  

• Iran says it executed head of human trafficking network as alarm over other executions continue

  

• Syrian doctor uses bees to sting his patients in what he describes as a natural remedy

  

• Brittle Gaza ceasefire just about holds despite rocket attack

  

• No truce in sight, as Israel and Palestine trade blows for a fifth straight day

  

• Russia blamed for ‘deep fakes’ in Turkish election

  

• Erdogan election rival enjoys boost as candidate quits

  

• Two Islamic Jihad leaders among 26 dead in Israeli air strikes on Gaza

  

• Attempts to broker ceasefire in Gaza as militants fire salvo of rockets into Israel

  

• Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kill at least 10 civilians – including several children – and three Palestinian militants

  

• Iran ‘now executing one person every six hours’, says rights monitor

  

• Islamic State chief killed in Syria by Turkish forces, says Erdogan

  

• ‘A great tragedy’ – Yemen probe under way after 78 killed in stampede

  

• Fiddler on the Roof star Chaim Topol ‘lived double life as Mossad agent’, family reveal

  

• Almost 900 prisoners return home in Yemen war swap

  

• Mother of sisters killed in West Bank shooting dies while boy (15) is shot dead by Israeli army

  

• Saudi delegates arrive in Yemen for talks in bid to end civil war

  

• Saudi Arabia begins talks to end nine-year war in Yemen

  

• Benjamin Netanyahu’s office brands as absurd leak claiming Mossad backed Israeli protests

  

• Turkey earthquake two months on – ‘It’s hard to comprehend the devastation we are seeing’

  

• Tensions ramp up in Middle East as two sisters are buried in Israel amid rocket and air-strikes

  

• CCTV to enforce Iran’s strict headscarf rules on women

  

• Tourist dies in Tel Aviv car attack and driver is shot dead

  

• Two British sisters shot dead by Palestinians in West Bank

  

• Israeli strikes target Hamas in Lebanon and Gaza in major escalation

  

• Diplomats from Iran and Saudi Arabia meet to agree deal after years of hostility

  

• Israeli police in violent clashes with Muslims during mosque raid

  

• Benjamin Netanyahu tells ally Joe Biden to back off in showdown over disputed judicial reforms

  

• Why are the judicial reforms in Israel so unpopular?

  

• Benjamin Netanyahu freezes reform plans over fears Israel could be plunged into ‘civil war’