Middle East

GENEVA (AP) — UN-backed investigators pointed Tuesday to signs that Syria’s government continues to perpetrate rape, torture and murder as…

GENEVA (Reuters) – Dozens of Western countries voiced concern on Tuesday at Saudi Arabia’s continued detention of women activists and…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish and international lawyers’ groups have voiced concern over the arrest of dozens of lawyers, saying they…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to preside over the signing of historic diplomatic deals between Israel and…

RABAT (Reuters) – Working conditions are so bad for some medics in Morocco handling a surging coronavirus outbreak that they…

BEIRUT (AP) — A fire broke out Tuesday in a downtown Beirut building near the city’s port where an explosion…

AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan will suspend schools for two weeks from Thursday and close places of worship, restaurants and public…

CAIRO (AP) — The UN migration agency said Tuesday that a boat carrying migrants bound for Europe capsized in the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court on Monday handed down three life sentences to a Jewish extremist convicted in a…

(CNN) A British-Iranian mother and charity worker Nazain Zaghari-Ratcliffe could face an additional year in an Iranian prison as new…