Middle East

TOKYO—Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday but remained near multi-year highs, supported by a global supply shortage and strong demand in the United States, the world's biggest consumer. Brent crude ...

ISTANBUL—The Turkish lira skidded to another all-time low of 9.85 on Monday after President Tayyip Erdogan said he ...

LONDON—World stocks held their ground on Monday after eight consecutive sessions of gains, as traders weighed the prospects ...

JACKSON, Wyo.—Dozens of U.S. fellow Marines joined hundreds of Wyoming residents to bid a final farewell at a ...

JERUSALEM—Israel's deputy foreign minister said on Sunday that the Biden administration may shelve its plan to reopen a ...

LONDON—The husband of UK charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained for more than five years in ...

DUBAI—Afghanistan will shortly collapse into chaos unless the international community acts rapidly, Swedish and Pakistani ministers warned on ...

PARIS/WASHINGTON—The United States on Thursday withdrew its threat of tariffs against five European countries over their digital services ...

The Israeli Defense Ministry has designated six Palestinian civil society groups as terror outfits operating as part of ...

A U.S. military drone strike in northwest Syria has killed a senior al-Qaeda leader on Oct. 22, the ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) kicked off a nationwide large-scale military drill on Oct. 21 ...

Syria executed two dozen people on Oct. 20 after they were charged for igniting wildfires in 2020 that ...

Bombs attached to a bus carrying Syrian army troops exploded in Damascus killing 14. This was followed by ...

LONDON—Australian and New Zealand dollars slipped from highs hit overnight, and the dollar fell versus the yen on ...

LONDON—Oil hit a three-year high above $86 a barrel on Thursday driven by tight supply and a global ...

LONDON—World stocks slipped on Thursday as the upbeat mood that carried the Dow Jones and bitcoin to records ...

NEW DELHI—First, there was a quadrilateral security alliance or "quad" between the United States, India, Japan, and Australia ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The Middle East is expected to see significant economic growth this year, but also soaring ...

JERUSALEM—An Israeli scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country's Mediterranean coast that experts say dates ...

The State Department's inspector general has initiated a review of how the Biden administration withdrew from Afghanistan. The ...

The chief U.S. envoy to the Taliban is stepping down from his role, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced ...

LONDON—Oil prices rose on Tuesday as a supply crunch in natural gas, electricity, and coal continued across the ...

LONDON—World stocks climbed to a one-month high on Tuesday as a rally in technology shares and prospects of ...

BAGHDAD—Iraq said Monday it has detained the mastermind behind a deadly 2016 bombing in a Baghdad shopping center, ...

A fire erupted on Monday at a major oil refinery in Kuwait, the state-owned oil company said, reporting ...

LONDON—Oil prices hit multi-year highs on Monday buoyed by recovering demand and high natural gas and coal prices ...

Commentary Football fans palpably celebrated when Newcastle United announced that Saudia Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) had purchased ...