Middle East

KYIV (Reuters) — Ukraine said on Friday that its first round of talks with Iran about the downing of a…

CAIRO (AP) — A recent surge of violence in Darfur, the war-scarred region of western Sudan, has deprived more than…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Small groups of pilgrims performed one of the final rites of the Islamic hajj…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman was discharged from a hospital in the capital Riyadh after…

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) — Slaughterhouses typically crowded with Palestinian Muslims buying sheep for the annual Eid al-Adha “feast of…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s finance minister said Thursday he would bring a short-term budget up for a vote next week,…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States on Wednesday imposed new sanctions aimed at cutting off funds for Syrian President Bashar…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Masked pilgrims arrived Thursday at Mount Arafat, a desert hill near Islam’s holiest site,…

LONDON/SAO PAULO/SEOUL (Reuters) — Iran, creaking under the impact of US sanctions, a collapse in oil sales and a severe…

CAIRO (AP) — When Turkey’s president signed a security deal last year to back one of the sides in Libya’s…