Middle East

ARWAD, Syria (Reuters) – In the years before Syria’s war the boatmakers of Arwad used to sell their wooden vessels…

Jordan summoned the Israeli ambassador in Amman, Amir Weissbrod, on Sunday following “Israeli violations” last week at the Jerusalem site…

Sudan’s deposed military leader Omar al-Bashir, who ruled the country for 30 years, arrived in court Monday in Khartoum for…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s president on Monday vowed to “eliminate” all safe havens of the Islamic State group as…

The Iranian oil tanker at the center of a diplomatic dispute has departed from Gibraltar after the British overseas territory…

GIBRALTAR (Reuters) – An Iranian tanker caught in a stand-off between Tehran and the West has raised an Iranian flag…

HAJJAH PROVINCE, Yemen (Reuters) – Before Yemen’s war broke out four years ago Ali Muhammad used to cross the border…

KABUL (Reuters) – The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility on Sunday for a suicide blast at a wedding reception…

BEIRUT (AP) — Government and Russian airstrikes pounded the southern edge of a rebel stronghold in Syria’s northwest on Saturday,…

JERUSALEM/GAZA – Israeli forces opened fire at a group of Palestinian gunmen as they tried to cross the Gaza border,…