Middle East

Senior Saudi and Iranian officials have held direct talks in an effort to repair relations between the two countries, four years after…

JERUSALEM – Israel and Greece have signed their biggest ever defense procurement deal, which Israel said Sunday would strengthen political…

Syria will hold a presidential election on May 26 that is virtually certain to return President Bashar al-Assad for a…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s daily coronavirus death toll climbed over 400 for the first time in months on Sunday,…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook southwestern Iran along the Persian Gulf on Sunday, followed by at…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli briefly detained three Jerusalem-based candidates for Palestinian legislative elections on Saturday, deepening a dispute over whether…

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s transitional government on Saturday welcomed a U.N. Security Council decision to deploy international monitors to watch…

BHANNINE, Lebanon (AP) — It was messy and hectic in Aisha al-Abed’s kitchen, as the first day of Ramadan often…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran named a suspect Saturday in the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility that damaged centrifuges…

ELM GROVE, Wis. (AP) — Patrick Proctor Brown says the war in Afghanistan was lost within a year of its…