Middle East

BAGHDAD/ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Iraq’s oilfields in the disputed Kirkuk region have taken on new significance after the United States…

  Fighting for control of Yemen’s rebel-held city of Hodeida reached residential streets on Sunday, as the Huthi insurgents mounted…

Yemeni government forces pressed further into the strategic port city of Hodeida, seizing its main hospital in heavy fighting Saturday,…

  Officials from Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and Britain have listened to audio recordings related to the…

  Libya’s key political players are set to meet global leaders in Italy next week, in the latest bid by…

  A Syrian woman captured by Islamic State militants said her 8-year-old son died in her lap when the extremists…

  Syrian government forces killed 23 rebels near Idlib province on Friday, the deadliest clash to rock a buffer zone…

  Saudi Arabia and the United States have agreed to end US refueling of aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition battling…

  GAZA (Reuters) – A $15 million Qatari cash infusion was paid out to impoverished Palestinian civil servants in Gaza…

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Members of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, a body overseeing peace efforts, met Taliban officials at a…