Middle East

  The United States announced on Friday it will effectively close its consulate in the Iraqi city of Basra and…

  The Palestinian Authority filed a case Friday with the United Nations’ highest court asking its judges to order Washington…

  Syrian state media said on Saturday the major Nassib border crossing with Jordan would reopen on October 10, three…

  Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians, two of them children, and wounded dozens more, Palestinian health officials said, in the…

  Syrian rebels forced from their towns when government forces retook eastern Ghouta near Damascus are starting over in the…

  LONDON (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) told Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Friday to respect…

  BAGHDAD (AP) — Masked gunmen shot dead a human rights activist and mother of four outside a supermarket in…

  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The remaining parties to the Iran nuclear deal on Monday agreed to keep working to…

  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament has ratified the international Arms Trade Treaty, angering Hezbollah legislators, some of whom walked…

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Prosecutors in Bahrain say they have launched a mass prosecution of 169 defendants…