Middle East

  Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned the killing of Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border, saying the deaths would only lead…

  Taliban fighters with heavy weapons and night-vision equipment fought their way close to the center of the western city…

Populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States, has all but won Iraq’s parliamentary election, the electoral…

President Donald Trump’s prospects for brokering the Middle East peace “deal of the century” plunged ever deeper as the US…

Taliban fighters threatened the provincial capital of Farah in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, with fighting underway on the outskirts of…

Turkey’s Kurdish opposition presidential candidate, who is challenging President Tayyip Erdogan from behind prison bars, said a fair vote in…

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck southwest Iran in the early hours of Wednesday, the National Earthquake Information Center said. There…

Egypt’s Investment Minister Sahar Nasr told Bloomberg in a video interview aired Wednesday that the focus of the investment side…

EU Commissioner for Refugees Dimitris Avramopoulos said Germany would be accepting more than 10,000 refugees from North Africa and the…

Is Israel a success as it turns 70? As Israelis commemorate the milestone this week, satisfaction and a grim disquiet…