Middle East

LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal stopped issuing entry visas for Iranian nationals while it upgrades security at its consulate in Tehran,…

AMMAN (Reuters) – At least 12 people were killed and scores wounded on Tuesday in aerial strikes believed to have…

France, Britain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Italy on Tuesday called for an immediate end of hostilities in…

Yemen’s warring sides had agreed on a “mechanism and new measures to reinforce the ceasefire and deescalation,” announced the UN…

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, was transferred from Evin prison to the psychiatric ward at Imam Khomeini hospital, where she is being…

Sudan’s ruling military council and an alliance of opposition groups on Wednesday signed the first of two documents as part of…

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) – A fire at Iraq’s southern Basra offshore oil export terminal briefly halted crude loading operations on…

MOTZA, Israel (Reuters) – A huge prehistoric settlement discovered near Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologists offers new insight into how civilizations…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union foreign ministers on Monday turned up the pressure on Turkey after approving an initial batch…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran confirmed on Tuesday it had detained French-Iranian scholar Fariba Adelkhah but declined to give any more…