Middle East

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Islamabad Wednesday to meet new Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying he was…

BASRA, Iraq (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister has ordered an investigation into violent protests in the southern city of Basra…

With Tehran’s support, Moscow has renewed its airstrikes against the last major rebel stronghold in Syria. The US had warned…

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi lawmakers who met this week for the first time since a May election and are still…

GENEVA (Reuters) – The husband of detained Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was himself arrested on Tuesday, Amnesty International…

DALYAN, Turkey (Reuters) – June Haimoff first stumbled across a loggerhead turtle on Turkey’s southern coast more than 30 years…

MADRID (AP) — Spain says it has cancelled the sale of 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia amid fears that…

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) – Hundreds of people gathered near a provincial government building in Iraq’s southern oil hub Basra on…

GENEVA (Reuters) – Talks between major powers this month on setting up a committee to lead constitutional reform in Syria…

GENEVA (AP) — The top official with the UN’s Palestinian aid agency says countries including Qatar, the United Arab Emirates,…