Middle East

Iraqis kept up anti-government protests in Baghdad and the south on Saturday, unsatisfied with the premier’s vowed resignation and insisting…

Iraq’s embattled premier announced Friday he would resign in keeping with the wishes of the country’s top cleric, as renewed…

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Notorious for leaks and chastened by previous security lapses, the White House went to unusual…

AMMAN (Reuters) — A financial crisis in Lebanon has hit the economy of neighboring Syria hard, choking off a vital…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi said Friday he would submit his resignation to parliament, a day after…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s transitional government announced on Friday that it has overturned a moral policing law and moved to…

KABUL (Reuters) — The Taliban said on Friday they were ready to restart peace talks with the United States, a…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon paid back a Eurobond worth $1.5 billion that was scheduled to mature Thursday, a Finance Ministry…

BAGHDAD/NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) — Iraqi security forces shot dead at least 45 protesters on Thursday after demonstrators stormed and torched…

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) — Libya’s internationally recognized government and Turkey have signed an agreement on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea…