Middle East

  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A high-speed train hit a railway engine and crashed into a pedestrian overpass Thursday at…

DUBAI/DOHA (Reuters) – Even before taking over Qatar’s energy policy in a government reshuffle last month, Qatar Petroleum (QP) CEO…

  RIMBO, Sweden (Reuters) – Yemen’s warring parties are being pressed to agree thorny confidence-building measures, including the status of…

  LONDON (Reuters) – Lebanon will definitely form a new government despite the obstacles, its caretaker foreign minister said on…

  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The small town of Abassan in the Gaza Strip is a tough place…

  Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s nuclear chief and former foreign minister, has warned that Iranians are running out of patience with the…

  BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s government has been using a little-known anti-terrorism law to seize property from dissidents and their…

  Al-QAIM, Iraq (Reuters) – From a desert hillside guarded by Iraqi Shi’ite paramilitaries, commander Qasim Muslih can spot Islamic…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has sentenced two human rights lawyers to six years in prison and a third to…

  ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey is in talks with the United Nations regarding the investigation into the killing of prominent…