Middle East
How Can Iran Respond to Trump’s Nuclear Deal Decision?
Iran finds itself in a tricky balancing act as it weighs a response to U.S. President Donald J. Trump's decision...
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Trump: US Withdraws from ‘Defective’ Iran Nuclear Deal
President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday announced the U.S. withdrawal from the "defective" multinational nuclear deal with Iran.
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Hezbollah Cements Dominance in Lebanon After General Election
The Iran-backed Hezbollah group was poised to seal its dominance of Lebanese politics on Monday as its main foe Prime...
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Can Iraq Balance Relations With Both Saudi Arabia and its Arch-Rival Iran?
Iraqi-Saudi ties have thawed significantly recently, becoming stronger than they have been in three decades.
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Dozens of Palestinians Wounded by Gunfire in Gaza Border Protest
Dozens of Palestinians were wounded by gunfire on Friday as thousands demonstrated on the Gaza border for a sixth week...
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Red Cross: Syria Aid Shifts to ‘Rehabilitation’ from ‘Emergency’
Providing humanitarian aid in war-ravaged Syria looks set to shift increasingly away from emergency, life-saving assistance towards rehabilitating devastated areas...
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Netanyahu’s Iran Nuke Claims Fail to Convince Deal Proponents
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's televised unveiling of an intelligence trove on Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions led to skepticism from...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Takes Election Campaign to Kurdish Capital
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday took his campaign for May 12 elections to the capital of the autonomous...
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Israeli Policeman Jailed 9 Months Over Killing of Palestinian in 2014
An Israeli court sentenced a police officer to nine months in jail over the fatal shooting of a Palestinian teenager...
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Trump Warns of ‘Big Price to Pay’ After Syria’s Chemical Gas Attack
An alleged chemical attack that left dozens dead in Syria's rebel-held town of Douma sparked international outrage on Sunday, with...
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Media Watchdog: Israel Deliberately Shooting Journalists in Gaza
Reporters Without Borders on Saturday accused the Israeli army of the "deliberate shooting" of journalists in Gaza after a week...
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UN Conducts First Aid Mission to Syria’s Raqqa Since ISIS Defeat
The United Nations said on Wednesday that it has conducted its first humanitarian mission to Raqqa since the Syrian city...
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Nations that Bomb Yemen Raise $2 Billion to Help Civilians There
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies that are currently bombarding Yemen have pledged more than $1 billion to help civilians...
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Saudi Arabia Outlaws Spying on Spouse’s Phone
Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that "spying" on your spouse's phone is now a criminal offence potentially punishable by a hefty...
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Syrian Rebels Strike Deal With Russia to Evacuate Civilians from Douma
Syrian regime ally Russia struck a deal with rebels to evacuate hundreds of civilians from Douma, the final opposition pocket...
Read moreEU’s Mogherini Urges Independent Probe into Gaza Deaths
The E.U.'s diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini called for an independent investigation into the use of live ammunition by Israel's military...
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UN Gathers ‘Unprecedented’ Amount of Data in Syria War Crime Probe
U.N. investigators said on Tuesday they had begun sifting through "unprecedented" amounts of information related to horrific crimes committed in...
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Half a Million Students Drop Out of School in Yemen War
Close to half a million Yemeni children have dropped out of school since 2015, when Saudi Arabia and its allies...
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How President Sisi Consolidated Power in Egypt
Abdel-Moneim Abu al-Fotouh was among those detained in an escalating series of arrests in Egypt ahead of the upcoming presidential...
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Syrian Regime Takes Over Most of Eastern Ghouta; Rebels Cornered
Eastern Ghouta's six-year rebel rule was in its dying moments on Friday as fighters evacuated one of the Syrian enclave's...
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