Lizzie Porter

Blockade, gas shortages and stranded cargo deepen Tehran's crisis while Trump mulls renewed strikes

Human rights campaigners say men were sentenced after torture and forced confessions

Turkey faces huge challenge of increasingly extreme weather and planning that prioritises profit

Iranians follow – or ignore – news on who will form next Israeli government and determine course of war

Signs of renewed escalation are 'not good', former caretaker prime minister Anwaar Ul Haq Kakar says

Foreign ministers from eight countries call for diplomacy as regional war threatens to widen

Erdogan and Carney pledge to forge closer ties in energy and defence

Tensions rising over southern province that is home to Druze minority

Snipers posted on rooftops in southern governorate as Damascus condemns rise in cross-border incursions

Mutual defence agreement accelerated after Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia

Dispute after girls wearing hijab barred from classrooms

Residents told to stay at home as record rainfall 'turns roads into lakes'

Turkish security sources confirm move as part of militant group's dissolution process

Ruling party has never won election in Izmir but now controls city

Analysis: Pakistan and Turkey's agreement to help kingdom under Makkah defence pact is not same as overnight mobilisation