Middle East

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has quietly established a constitutional court that analysts say concentrates more power in his hands and…

Former Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest since 2011, appealed to President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday for a…

The United Nations special envoy for Yemen welcomed the start of a tentative truce in the country's year-old conflict on…

The Russian air force and Syrian military are preparing a joint operation to take Aleppo from rebels, the Syrian prime…

Staff have been evacuated from three oil fields in eastern Libya because of fears of attacks by Islamic State militants,…

A half-year-long surge in Palestinian street attacks against Israelis is waning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, while Hamas…

Suspected al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemen seized and executed 17 soldiers loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Saturday, local…

Lebanese authorities are expected to decide soon on whether a four-member Australian film crew will face charges in connection with…

In the past three months, the Israeli military has more than tripled its demolitions of Palestinian structures in the occupied…

China's first special envoy for the Syrian crisis praised Russia's military role in the war on Friday, and said the…