Middle East

After Angela Merkel broke her silence on Turkey’s Afrin offensive and condemned the attack, Ankara rejected her stance as “unacceptable.”…

A series of recent health scares have raised new concerns about octogenarian President Mahmoud Abbas, reviving anxiety about a potentially…

Russian Defense Ministry said more than 5,000 civilians left Syria’s Eastern Ghouta on Thursday, RIA agency reported.

Hamas-run security forces in Gaza detained a main suspect in last week’s assassination attempt against Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah…

The Syrian government moved closer to ending rebel resistance in eastern Ghouta as civilians streamed out of one of its…

Iranian state media are reporting that philosopher Dariush Shayegan, known for his book “Cultural Schizophrenia,” has died at the age…

A US-funded counterterrorism center has opened in Jordan where law enforcement officers from partner countries in the Middle East and…

A firm known for its pro-government messaging is set to buy one of the last bastions of liberal media in…

Palestinian teenage protest icon Ahed Tamimi on Wednesday was sentenced to eight months in prison for slapping and kicking a…

Kuwait’s Public Authority for Industry (PAI) plans to set up a multi-purpose industrial city in the Gulf Arab state with…