Middle East

WASHINGTON (AP) — Against the advice of many in his own administration, President Donald Trump is pulling US troops out…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Dubai’s real estate downturn is forcing construction and engineering firms to cut jobs and halt expansion plans,…

  JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The World Food Programme announced on Wednesday cuts in food aid affecting some 190,000 impoverished Palestinians…

  A hard-won truce in the battleground Yemeni city of Hodeida will collapse if rebel violations persist and the United…

  (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Hezbollah has “at most, a few dozen” precision-guided…

  BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday that Islamic State militants had executed nearly…

  ADEN (Reuters) – Yemen’s warring parties have traded accusations of breaching a ceasefire in Hodeidah that was mediated by…

  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has extended monthly allowances for government employees, military personnel, pensioners,…

  GENEVA (Reuters) – Russia, Iran and Turkey are close to agreement on composition of a Syrian constitutional committee that…

The UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL has confirmed the existence of tunnels under the Lebanon-Israel border. The announcement comes as the…