Middle East

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says about 500 or 600 U.S. troops will remain…

BAGHDAD (AP) — The United Nations’ mission for Iraq on Sunday proposed a roadmap out of the country’s social upheaval,…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s king announced Sunday that his country is retaking “full sovereignty” over two pieces of land…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president is making a new pitch to hard-liners to stay in the country’s unraveling 2015…

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — A young Palestinian man who was shot in the back by Israeli forces in an…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces put up concrete barriers in central Baghdad Sunday, trying to hamper and block protesters’…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country’s south with over 50 billion barrels…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected as a “trap” reports that the International Atomic Energy Agency, the…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed Turkey’s military offensive in Syria in a phone call…

ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Iran should come to the negotiating table with world powers and Gulf countries to seek a…