Middle East

  BEIRUT (Reuters) — Mohammad Safadi, a former finance minister, has agreed to be Lebanon’s prime minister if he wins…

MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia landed attack helicopters and troops at a sprawling air base in northern Syria vacated by U.S. forces,…

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Thursday he did not…

Israel launched fresh strikes against Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza, the army said early on Friday, weakening a ceasefire put…

DUBAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia is intensifying informal talks with the Iran-aligned Huthi movement on a ceasefire in Yemen,…

Lebanon’s President Michael Aoun on Thursday said on his official Twitter account that he has hope in the possibility of…

Turkey said on Thursday it would deport an American Islamic State fighter to the United States after he was refused…

Kuwait’s prime minister has submitted his cabinet’s resignation to the ruling emir of the Gulf Arab state, a government spokesman…

  MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia has begun setting up a helicopter base at a civilian airport in the north-eastern Syrian…

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Security forces killed two protesters and wounded 35 others in Baghdad on Thursday, police and medical sources…