Middle East

DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women’s rights activists, the latest to be swept up in a…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey will retaliate against a U.S. decision to impose sanctions on two senior ministers over the imprisonment…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel would deploy its military if Iran were to try to block the Bab al-Mandeb strait that…

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – The road to Syria’s border crossing with Jordan, closed by conflict in 2011, is ready for use…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s parliament announced Wednesday it would hold a special session to question President Hassan Rouhani about…

CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency is warning of another cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen after airstrikes hit water…

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Iranian forces have withdrawn their heavy weapons to a distance of 85 km (53 miles) from the…

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia has agreed to accept a boat carrying around 40 African migrants stranded for two weeks off…

AMMAN (Reuters) – The Syrian army and its allies has taken full control of the Yarmouk Basin in southwestern Syria…

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway has asked Israel to explain the legal grounds for detaining a Norwegian-flagged fishing boat seized while…