Middle East

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Two French researchers held for months in a Tehran prison on charges of violating Iran’s state…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s most powerful Shia cleric called for security forces to protect anti-government protesters in a Friday sermon,…

LONDON (AP) — A U.K. woman who as a teenager ran away to join the Islamic State group lost a…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government troops entered a strategic town in the country’s last rebel stronghold Thursday after fierce clashes…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. at his direction has conducted a counter-terrorism operation in…

UMM AL-FAHM, Israel (AP) — It might have seemed to be one of the more innocuous elements in President Donald…

BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes early on Thursday near Damascus, wounding eight soldiers, Syrian state media said,…

BAGHDAD (AP) — A new watchtower rose over an American military base in northern Iraq, and cranes lifted hefty slabs…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia has used a secretive court established to try terrorism cases as “a…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Syrian opposition fighters, supported by Turkish artillery fire, drove government troops out of a key town…