Middle East

  RIMBO, Sweden (Reuters) – Yemen’s warring parties are being pressed to agree thorny confidence-building measures, including the status of…

  LONDON (Reuters) – Lebanon will definitely form a new government despite the obstacles, its caretaker foreign minister said on…

  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The small town of Abassan in the Gaza Strip is a tough place…

  Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s nuclear chief and former foreign minister, has warned that Iranians are running out of patience with the…

  BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s government has been using a little-known anti-terrorism law to seize property from dissidents and their…

  Al-QAIM, Iraq (Reuters) – From a desert hillside guarded by Iraqi Shi’ite paramilitaries, commander Qasim Muslih can spot Islamic…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has sentenced two human rights lawyers to six years in prison and a third to…

  ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey is in talks with the United Nations regarding the investigation into the killing of prominent…

  GENEVA (Reuters) – Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others…

  BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon foiled a plot by militants based in Syria to carry out two attacks this year…