Middle East

ROME—Italian prosecutors have placed five members of Egypt's security forces under official investigation for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of student Giulio Regeni, a judicial source said. Regeni, a ...

JERUSALEM—Israel's military said on Dec. 4, it was beginning an operation to "expose and thwart" cross-border attack tunnels ...

SANAA—Authorities in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital Sanaa are sterilizing water supplies at wells, distribution networks and houses to ...

DOHA—Qatar said it will quit OPEC to focus on gas in a swipe at Saudi Arabia, the de ...

Iran has test-fired a medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple warheads, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said ...

WASHINGTON—The United States on Nov. 28 indicted two Iranians for launching a major cyber attack using ransomware known ...

A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Nov. 27 in what appeared to be ...

LONDON—British academic Matthew Hedges arrived back in the UK on Nov. 27 and thanked his "brave and strong" ...

RAQQA, Syria—In the Syrian city of Raqqa, children wear hats, scarves, and coats to guard against the winter cold ...

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia—Saudi Aramco will expand its market share in Asia despite likely OPEC limits on output next ...

"If there will be no education, all the youngsters will become fighters," says Abdulkafi Alhamdo

LONDON—A British academic who was jailed for life in the United Arab Emirates on charges of spying has ...

DUBAI—Iran said on Nov. 25 that no fatalities had been reported but that more than 400 people were ...

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Iran near its border with Iraq, said the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), ...

KABUL—A suicide blast at a mosque in an army base in eastern Afghanistan on Nov. 23, killed at ...

LAHORE, Pakistan—The party of a radical Islamic cleric who disrupted daily life with rallies across Pakistan following the ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—A suicide bomb attack on a crowded festival and market in northwest Pakistan's northwest killed at least ...

Iran issued a warning to the United States about its missiles, saying American military bases in Qatar, Afghanistan, ...

LONDON—A UK academic has been sentenced to life in prison in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after being ...

SANAA, Yemen—An estimated 85,000 children under age 5 may have died of hunger and disease since the outbreak ...

Turkish media outlets have published portions of the purported audio recording of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder. Killers ...

KABUL, Afghanistan—A three-day meeting between the Taliban and the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan to pave the way for ...

DUBAI—Houthi rebels in Yemen said on Nov. 19 they were halting drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, ...

BAGHDAD—Iraqi officials said five people were killed in a car bomb blast in the city of Tikrit on ...

Surgeon Dong Jiahong been disinvited from a China-Israel summit for his suspected role in forced organ harvesting from ...

President Donald Trump said on Nov. 17 that his administration will get a report in the next two ...

The United States sanctioned 17 senior Saudi officials on Nov. 15, hours after Riyadh's top prosecutor called for ...