Middle East

  AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan and Syria held their first technical talks on opening a major border crossing in southern…

  GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations has shared the GPS coordinates of 235 protected sites in the Syrian province…

  ADEN (Reuters) – Yemeni forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition seized the main road linking the port city of…

  SULAIMANIYA/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Violent protests in the Iraqi city of Basra have all but ended US-backed Prime Minister…

  GENEVA (Reuters) – Palestinian citizens are trapped in an economy of jobless growth with no prospects, especially in Gaza,…

  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that a court has sentenced a close ally…

  IDLIB, Syria (Reuters) – Syrians escaping violence in Idlib have arrived in villages near the Turkish border in droves,…

  The 150th regular session of the Arab League convened in Cairo on Tuesday, to discuss the suspension of US…

  GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian government forces fired chlorine, a banned chemical weapon, on a rebel-held Damascus suburb and on…

  ROME (Reuters) – Conditions in Libya are too unstable to hold elections, Prime Minister Fayez Seraj was cited as…