Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun says his country seeks peace with Israel, but is not ready to normalise ties. Lebanon’s president says his country wants peace but not normalisation with Israel, as health authorities said an Israeli air strike killed one person in the south of the country. As well as causing one death on Friday, the drone attack on a car in Nabatieh district wounded five other people,...

Members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party lay down their arms after decades of war with Turkiye. It’s one of the longest-running conflicts in the Middle East – and it’s about to come to an end. Members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have started laying down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq. It comes two months after the group said it would end its armed struggle...