Middle East

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Iran said Tuesday they were not seeking war with each other as tensions…

FOUSSANA, Tunisia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Standing near the shrine of the Sufi saint Sidi Boughanem in western Tunisia, Karim…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s National Library has digitized a rare collection of communal ledgers from long-lost Jewish communities of Europe,…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief declared Tuesday that “a humanitarian disaster” is unfolding in Syria’s last rebel-held…

Saudi Arabia has rendered toothless the once-feared religious police amid a liberalisation drive, but a planned “public decency” law is…

CAIRO (AP) — A database tracking violence says at least 91,600 people have been killed in Yemen’s civil war, presenting…

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey has ordered the arrest of 128 military personnel over suspected links to the network accused by…

AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah reacts angrily to any suggestion that he might accept a U.S. deal to end…

LUXEMBOURG/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A European rights watchdog said on Tuesday that the European Union was violating international law with its…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran accused its main regional rival Saudi Arabia on Monday of adopting a “militaristic, crisis-based approach” for…