The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced it is quitting Opec, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, after nearly 60 years of membership.

Opec is an organisation of mainly Gulf oil exporters, which oversees oil production and has a major influence on the global prices.

The UAE's abrupt departure is seen as a blow to the group - and their exit could also affect you and your pocket.

The US president says he saved eight Iranian women from execution, but Iran says otherwise.

The 300 couples were selected in a draw of nearly 2,000 people to be a part of the joint celebration.

The US and Iran's rival blockades of the Strait of Hormuz have become a "test of wills", says Lyse Doucet.

Analysis indicates that parts of the video appear to have been filmed hours after the ships were reportedly seized.

BBC Arabic's correspondent Carine Torbey reports from the border town of Khiam, as the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon goes into its second day.

Eyewitnesses captured the moment a burning fuel tanker drove through the centre of Hasakah, Syria, leaving a trail of fire behind it.

Lyse Doucet says Iranians want a solution to the long-running animosity with the US, but leaders is not willing to make a deal on Washington's terms.

While military targets have been struck in Iran, civilian areas have too, showing the stark reality of the war.

The BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet arrived in Tehran to what she described as 'life on pause'.

BBC foreign correspondent Nick Beake visits Metula, an Israeli town surrounded on three sides by Lebanon.

BBC Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega joins paramedics on duty in Nabatieh - a city that was once vibrant, but is now abandoned.

BBC Middle East Correspondent Hugo Bachega hears from people affected by this week's attacks.

Pro-government demonstrators poured onto the streets of the Iranian capital after the announcement of the two-week conditional ceasefire between the US and Iran.

More than one million people in Lebanon have been displaced since the start of the war as Israel expands its ground operation there.

The BBC's Orla Guerin travels to the edge of the critical waterway that Iran has put a stranglehold on.

BBC reports from the funerals of three journalists killed by a targeted attack in southern Lebanon.

The BBC's Hugo Bachega speaks to families in Beirut as more than a million people have been displaced in Lebanon.

Violence began after a teenage settler was killed, reportedly after being hit by a vehicle driven by a Palestinian.

Israeli forces have been instructed to destroy the crossings over the Litani river that were being used by Hezbollah to send reinforcements.

The BBC's Sebastian Usher reports from Dimona in southern Israel, which was hit by an Iranian missile.