Middle East

KABUL, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Taliban fighters on Friday intensified clashes with Afghan forces and targeted militias allied with the…

MILAS, Turkey, Aug 6 (Reuters) – A forest fire was coming closer to a power station in southwest Turkey on…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar Airways said Thursday it grounded 13 Airbus A350s over what it described as…

BEIRUT (AP) — The militant Hezbollah group said it fired a barrage of rockets near Israeli positions close to the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi humanitarian aid worker’s anonymous Twitter account used for satire about Saudi Arabia’s…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The protégé of Iran’s supreme leader, Ebrahim Raisi, was sworn in as the country’s new president…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s defense minister warned Thursday that his country is prepared to strike Iran, issuing the…

Iran has a new head of government: Ebrahim Raisi. The 60-year-old cleric with the rimless glasses and what comes across as a…

BEIT UMMAR, WEST BANK (AP) — A week after the death of his eldest son, Moayed al-Alami sat on the…

Wadi bin Soleiman taps at his mobile phone. He’s sitting on his chair, inside his ceramics store in the historic…