Middle East

The three women tensed as their taxi approached the checkpoint manned by Islamic State group fighters. Everyone in Mosul dreaded…

Iran-allied Houthi forces blew up the house of ex-Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa on Monday as fighting between…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called for changes to a controversial draft bill critics say is designed to…

The chairman of Swiss-French cement maker LafargeHolcim (LHN.S) said the company had made unacceptable errors in Syria and that it…

Jets believed to be Syrian and Russian struck heavily crowded residential areas in a besieged rebel enclave near Damascus, killing…

Gun battles forced shops and schools to close in Yemen’s capital on Sunday as residents warned a three-year rebel alliance…

US President Donald Trump is close to a decision on whether to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, his son-in-law and…

The Arab League and Palestine have warned the US against moving its embassy to Jerusalem, saying such a move would set back any…

The United Arab Emirates on Sunday denied a claim by Yemen’s Shiite rebels that they fired a missile toward an…

Courts in the United States cannot put Turkey on trial, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, in reference to…