Middle East

Rights activist and art curator Hella Mewis was kidnapped outside her office in Baghdad by unidentified men. The abduction is…

DUBAI (Reuters) — Economic activity in the Gulf will contract sharply this year before recovering in 2021, hit by the…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel’s parliament voted on Monday to allow the country’s domestic intelligence agency to track the cellphones of…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s health minister says the financially troubled Mediterranean country, which has so far managed to contain the…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A year ago, Cijay Brightman was doing sound and lighting for a Madonna performance in…

PARIS (Reuters) — Investigators have begun work on the flight recorders from the Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli court convicted top model Bar Refaeli on Monday on four counts of tax…

KYIV (Reuters) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday said he welcomed Iran’s decision to hand over the black boxes…

BEIRUT (AP) — An explosion rocked a rebel-held area in northern Syria across the border from Turkey late Sunday, killing…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has been admitted to a hospital in the capital, Riyadh,…