Middle East

An Israeli air strike targeted a factory south of the Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday and the Syrian army…

Iraqi forces threatened on Wednesday to resume operations to capture northern Kurdish-held territory after accusing authorities there of delaying handing…

Hamas handed over control of the Gaza Strip’s borders with Egypt and Israel to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday in…

Iraq’s Kurdistan region said on Thursday it has offered a joint Kurdish-Iraqi deployment at a strategic crossing into Turkey, with…

Activists on Wednesday asked the United States to suspend a diplomatic visa for a Bahrain prince over allegations that he…

A 10-minute walk from the bustle of Jerusalem’s central bus station, Lifta’s crumbling remains are a sanctuary of silence. Residents…

Two corpses were left behind at a New York airport instead of being flown to Lahore, Pakistan’s national airline said,…

Russian President Vladimir Putin began a visit to Iran on Wednesday designed to underpin closer ties between two countries at…

Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani departed office on Wednesday, leaving his nephew to reconcile with the central government in Baghdad,…

An air strike killed 29 people and wounded 17 others in northern Yemen on Wednesday, the Huthi rebel health service…