Middle East

Imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, recent recipient of a prestigious European human rights award, has suffered fainting spells and deteriorating…

Of the millions of people trying to escape warfare or IS this year, the greatest number of refugees this year…

Clouds of smoke continued to waft Friday from a 63-floor luxury hotel in Dubai that was engulfed in flames on…

Israel has refused to include a novel about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man in…

Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian who rammed them with his car in the occupied West Bank on Thursday,…

Syria's state news agency says that two "terrorist explosions" have gone off in the predominantly Kurdish northeastern city of Qamishli,…

A UN plan to suspend Syria's nearly five-year-old civil war calls for listing which militant groups may be fought despite…

Unknown gunmen shot and killed a senior Yemeni militia leader and four people traveling in his convoy in the southern…

US President Barack Obama's administration is preparing new sanctions on international companies and individuals over Iran's ballistic missile program, sources…

The United States and its allies staged 28 air strikes on Tuesday against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the…