Kuwaitis express concern over escalating tensions in the Middle East following Iranian attacks, as fears grow about the impact of the conflict on the Gulf region.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo during his first visit to Egypt in a decade.

The visit comes as Beijing seeks to strengthen its presence and influence in the Middle East amid the ongoing US-Iran war.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) published a video footage that shows what they claim is the launch of waves of ballistic missiles aimed at American military installations and assets across the region.

Heavy monsoon rains caused flooding across dense residential areas of Rawalpindi, on the outskirts of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad.

Floodwaters forced shops to close and prompted residents to temporarily leave their inundated homes.

Firefighters worked to extinguish burning vehicles after a vehicle carrying munitions exploded in Binnish, in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. Syrian authorities said the blast killed five people.

The footage shows the aftermath of the explosion, with emergency crews responding at the scene and putting out fires among the damaged vehicles.

'Israeli' military bulldozers, under army surveillance, uprooted dozens of olive trees near the northern entrance to Arraba, southwest of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. A landowner said the trees had been planted around 70 years ago and questioned the reason for their removal.

Turkey hosted Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in Istanbul for the first ministerial meeting under the countries’ new regional defence pact, according to Turkish sources.

The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, signed earlier this month, aims to strengthen collective deterrence against acts of aggression and diversify regional security options.

'Israeli' forces demolished two Palestinian-owned residential buildings containing eight apartments in Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The demolitions were carried out on the grounds that the buildings lacked Israeli-issued building permits.

Aerial images show Nuwakot town in Nepal covered in mud, debris and damaged buildings, six days after devastating flash floods struck Nepal and Tibet. The disaster has killed more than 900 people and left another 4,247 missing.

'Israeli' soldiers and military vehicles deployed in Qusra, near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, after dozens of 'Israeli' settlers reportedly attacked the village and surrounded Palestinians inside a home. The 'Israeli' military said its forces were dispatched following reports of violent clashes and worked to remove settlers from the house and separate the groups.