Middle East

  CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility on Monday for a blast near the election commission in Afghan capital…

  KARBALA, Iraq (AP) — Millions of Shiite Muslims from around the world are making their way this week to…

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria’s National Museum of Damascus opened its rich trove of antiquities to visitors again on Sunday, seven…

REMADA, Tunisia (Reuters) – Tunisian Zubair Abdel-Moula lost his work selling smuggled fuel on the streets of a poor southern…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A battle is brewing between the Trump administration and some of the president’s biggest supporters in Congress…

(Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Sunday for the stepping up of efforts to fight enemy…

  US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Sunday that he had met Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister and called for…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s parliament approved a government economic reshuffle on Saturday, days before new U.S. sanctions on Tehran’s oil…

  The 26-year-old Yazidi mother faces a heartbreaking choice. Her family is preparing to emigrate from Iraq to Australia and…

  The leaders of Turkey, Russia, France and Germany on Saturday called for a political solution to Syria’s devastating seven-year…