Middle East

The airstrikes launched against militants in Syria last week sent a "very strong signal," the Pentagon said Monday, rebutting claims by militant groups that the strikes had no real effect ...

DUBAI—Iran said on March 1 the United States should lift sanctions first if it wants to hold talks ...

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden on Saturday said his administration would make an announcement on Saudi Arabia on Monday, following ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—Syrian air defenses were activated in the capital Damascus and its southern suburbs Sunday night to repel ...

DUBAI—Iran on Sunday ruled out holding an informal meeting with the United States and European powers to discuss ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—An Israeli-owned cargo ship that suffered a mysterious explosion in the Gulf of Oman came ...

MADRID—More than 850 cows that have spent months on a ship in the Mediterranean are no longer fit ...

News Analysis NEW DELHI—While Saudi Arabia maintains its neutrality over the Kashmir issue in India's favor, India's archrival ...

JERUSALEM—Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz said on Saturday his "initial assessment" was that Iran was responsible for an ...

DUBAI—Iran on Saturday condemned U.S. air strikes against Iran-backed militias in Syria, and denied responsibility for rocket attacks ...

President Joe Biden on Friday said the airstrikes the United States carried out in Syria this week sent ...

The White House announced Friday that congressional leadership had been briefed before President Joe Biden ordered strikes on ...

The Treasury Department on Friday imposed asset-freeze and prohibition-of-business sanctions against Saudi officials after a government report implicated ...

DUBAI—Iran is investigating the fatal shootings of at least two Iranians this week at the border with Pakistan, ...

WASHINGTON—Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved of an operation to capture or kill dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, ...

Several Democrats on Friday said they want information on why the Biden administration launched airstrikes in Syria. "The ...

BAGHDAD—A U.S. airstrike in Syria targeted facilities belonging to a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, killing one of ...

The UK Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Shamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria to join ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a long-serving oil minister in Saudi Arabia who led the kingdom through ...

BERLIN—A former imam at a radical mosque in Germany was convicted Wednesday of being a member of the ...

KOBLENZ, Germany—A German court sentenced a former member of President Bashar al-Assad's security services to 4-1/2 years in ...

An Iranian government newspaper warned on Tuesday that overly radical actions in the nuclear wrangling with the West ...

JERUSALEM—The corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will resume only after voters head to the polls ...

WASHINGTON—The family of an Iranian-American jailed in Tehran and his father, who is unable to leave Iran, urged ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia—Two days after violence related to Somalia's delayed elections, the country's foreign ministry has accused “external forces” ...

VATICAN CITY—Civil and religious leaders of the Yazidi people have issued an open letter to Pope Francis on ...

TEHRAN, Iran—The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog met with Iranian officials on Feb. 21 in a ...