Arab News

These are the top headlines from Arab News, the Middle East’s leading English-language daily, on Thursday Nov. 5 at 6pm GMT. - Eisenkot gains Arab Joint List backing to form Israeli government - Jordanian security officer killed in street stabbing - Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers discuss regional security amid escalating Houthi attacks - Israeli settlers move into homes near West Bank city - Coalition says Houthi missile fired at Saudi Arabia's Madinah region intercepted Check out the latest updates on arabnews.com

One of Iraq’s two main Kurdish parties withdrew from the government in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region Thursday, threatening to form a rival administration as a long-running power struggle between the parties intensified arab.news/47wjz

The death of a Yemeni UN employee who had been detained by the Houthis for more than two years raised “serious concerns about possible ill-treatment,” the organization says, warning that it could amount to a serious violation of international law arabnews.com/middle-east/un-…

Iranian top security official Mohsen Rezaei says he discussed "important ‌regional issues" with Russian President Vladimir Putin arab.news/zjn6j

🔴 BREAKING: Israeli President - I will announce on Sunday the name of the person tasked with forming the government arab.news/2gp27

A Turkish soldier was killed at the weekend during a cross-border fire incident along its border with Iran, the defense ministry says, indicating both countries were investigating the incident arab.news/yvgea

🔴 BREAKING: Senior Iranian official tells Reuters - US is reviewing Tehran's nuclear proposal arab.news/rbqtg

WATCH: Israeli forces demolish five Palestinian homes in the village of Biddu, displacing more than 105 people, according to the village’s former mayor. Israel said the structures were built without permits arab.news/5qatm

WATCH: For Rital Halawa, healing comes with a mask. It is meant to protect her burned face while it recovers. Now, her mother says, it is hurting her arab.news/pe2aq

Saudi Deputy Minister for Public Diplomacy @Rayedkrimly “categorically denied” Wall Street Journal report published Wednesday which claimed Yemen’s Houthi militia made demands from the Kingdom in return for an end to hostilities arab.news/9jg78

.@FLOTUS brought Russian and Ukrainian officials together at the @WhiteHouse and urged both sides to choose “humanity over war” ahead of talks next week in Abu Dhabi arab.news/5rhab

WATCH: Footage shared by @spokespersonyem of Yemeni armed forces targeting military equipment belonging to the Houthis on the Marib front

Roman Catholic priest, Anatoly Parakhnevich, who has opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and helped Ukrainian refugees, has been sentenced to three years in prison in Belarus, says a rights group arab.news/6hv2f

About 470 displaced families departed Hasakah on Thursday for their homes in Ras Al-Ain and its countryside in the Syrian Arab Republic arab.news/zshhh

Saudi Crown Prince received a written message from the Sierra Leone President. Waleed Elkhereiji, the Kingdom’s vice minister of foreign affairs, received it on behalf of the Crown Prince arab.news/gjuj9

President Donald Trump’s administration held secret talks with Iran on deporting Iranians even as the war there dragged on, court documents show arabnews.com/world/trump-adm…

Eight people shot dead in three villages in western central Turkiye, as a major manhunt is underway to find the gunman arab.news/8aray

Ethiopia and Sudan close each other’s consulates near their shared border, officials from the two countries say, marking a further deterioration in relations over allegations each side is supporting the other’s enemies arab.news/wvnr5

WATCH: Yemen’s Armed Forces carried out 1,298 strikes against Houthi targets as part of Operation Dawn of Yemen, neutralized about 440 fighters and commanders; destroyed or disabled 132 military vehicles, armored vehicles and heavy weapons arab.news/9fxf6