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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif embrace each other on the day they sign a defence agreement, in Riyadh on 17 September 2025. Photo: Reuters

Pakistan extends nuclear umbrella to Saudi Arabia: Source close to govt

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif reportedly also told a local broadcaster that the country's nuclear programme would be made available to Saudi Arabia if needed

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi arrives to Lebanon to meet with Lebanese officials, at Beirut international airport, Lebanon, June 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File photo

Iranian official denies reported meeting with European officials

A view shows Beirut's southern suburbs and surroundings, as seen from Baabda Lebanon November 27, 2024. File Photo: REUTERS/Ayman Sahely

Israeli drone strikes kill five, including children, in southern Lebanon

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa waves as he attends the “Aleppo, Key to Victory” celebration marking Syria’s liberation, in Aleppo, Syria May 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi/File Photo

Sharaa to become first Syrian leader to attend UN meetings since 1967

Right-wing Knesset members Itamar Ben-Gvir (Left) and Bezalel Smotrich, Jerusalem, September 2022. File Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen/Pool

Israeli far-right ministers urge West Bank annexation as Western countries recognise Palestinian state

Afghan soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint outside the US Bagram air base, on the day the last of American troops vacated it, Parwan province, Afghanistan July 2, 2021.Photo: REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail/File Photo

Trump says 'bad things' will happen if Afghanistan does not return Bagram air base

A member of the RSF forces walks around the destroyed Air Defence Forces command site in Khartoum, Sudan, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video on June 14, 2023. RSF via Twitter/via REUTERS/File Photo

Drone strike on Sudan mosque kills at least 70, army blames paramilitary group

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif embrace each other on the day they sign a defence agreement, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 17, 2025. Photo: Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS

Saudi Arabia, nuclear-armed Pakistan sign mutual defence pact

An Israeli soldier stands on a vehicle as Israeli Druze cross the border to check on their family members in Syria, amid the ongoing conflict in the Druze areas in Syria, in Majdal Shams, near the ceasefire line between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syria, July 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Under US pressure, Syria and Israel inch toward security deal

Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, September 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Israel says 'Gaza is burning' as it launches huge ground assault

A member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stands guard as Syrian Kurds attend a protest in solidarity with people in Sweida, after scores of people have been killed this week in violence in and around the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, pitting fighters from the Druze minority against government security forces and members of Bedouin tribes, in Qamishli, Syria July 17, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Orhan Qereman/File Photo

Sectarian violence risks dividing Syria despite Sharaa's diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a question from the media next to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at their joint press conference at the Prime Minister's Office, during Rubio's visit, in Jerusalem, September 15, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/Pool

Israel threatens Hamas 'wherever they are' as Qatar hosts summit

Displaced Palestinians, fleeing northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation, move southward after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south, in the central Gaza Strip September 15, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

Gazans flee Israeli bombardment as Rubio meets Netanyahu in Jerusalem