Middle East

Israel’s military on Wednesday reduced by four months the 18-month jail term of an ex-soldier who killed an incapacitated Palestinian…

Thousands of people took to the streets of Tehran on Wednesday to bury a soldier whose beheading by Islamic State…

Palestine joined Interpol as a member state on Wednesday, a move opposed by Israel, in a vote at the international…

Turkey’s border with northern Iraq remains open, although that does not mean it will remain so, the Turkish customs minister…

Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said on Tuesday that Kurds had voted “yes” to independence in a referendum held in…

Women will be allowed to drive for the first time next summer in Saudi Arabia, the ultra-conservative kingdom announced, marking…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced concern over anti-Semitism on the left and right in a congratulatory phone call to…

Thousands of Iranian Kurds poured into the streets of Iran overnight and into early Tuesday in support of the Iraqi…

Saudi authorities fired a senior education official and other supervisors after a school textbook was found that included a photo-shopped…

The Syrian government is open to negotiations with Kurds over their demand for autonomy within Syria’s borders, the foreign minister…