Middle East

Israel's birth rate, the highest in the developed world and once seen as a survival tactic in a hostile region,…

Iraq's most influential Shi'ite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, reaffirmed on Friday the need for economic and administrative reforms…

Saudi Arabia, under growing pressure to account for a crush that killed more than 700 people at the haj pilgrimage,…

The courtyards surrounding East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday – the first day of the four-day Eid al-Adha – were…

More than 150,000 trained and equipped fighters in pro-government militias have become an indispensable brace for a Syrian army beleaguered…

 A Saudi prince has been arrested on charges of trying to force a worker at a Beverly Hills estate to…

The worst tragedy in 25 years at the annual Muslim pilgrimage occurred during the symbolic stoning of the devil at…

Iran accused Saudi Arabia of safety errors after at least 43 of its citizens died Thursday in a stampede that…

Heavy regime bombardment has damaged parts of the ancient citadel in Syria's world heritage site of Palmyra, an archeological expert…

The deadly stampede at the hajj in Saudi Arabia on Thursday is just the latest tragedy to strike the pilgrimage.Here…