Middle East

MANDALI, Iraq (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister took a first step Saturday to combat cross-border corruption that has long plagued…

(Reuters) – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called on Saturday for big gatherings such as weddings and wakes to be banned…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Dubai has announced a new package worth 1.5 billion dirhams ($408 million) to help the economy cope…

BEIRUT (AP) — At least two doctors in Syria’s opposition-held northwest have been infected with the coronavirus, according to a…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia a mosque on Friday with the first Muslim prayers to…

SALFIT, West Bank (Reuters) – Hundreds of people gathered in the occupied West Bank on Friday for the funeral of…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran is determined to develop its oil industry in spite of US sanctions imposed on the country,…

Turkey’s highest administrative court issued a ruling Friday that paves the way for the government to convert Istanbul’s iconic Hagia…

BEIRUT (AP) — Hospitals in Syria’s overcrowded opposition-held enclave are suspending non-emergency procedures and outpatient services following the detection of…

PARIS (Reuters) — UNESCO must be notified of any change in the status of Istanbul’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia museum and…