Middle East

TEHRAN, Iran—A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck a southern Iranian province Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring more than 30 others, Iranian media reported. The quake 22 kilometers (14 ...

GAYAN, Afghanistan—An aftershock took more lives Friday and threatened to pile even more misery on an area of ...

BERLIN—The German government has managed to get more than 21,000 former local employees and other endangered people out ...

GAYAN, Afghanistan—Villagers rushed to bury the dead Thursday and dug by hand through the rubble of their homes ...

A U.S. Air Force service member was arrested in connection to an attack on a small American base ...

KABUL, Afghanistan—A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing 1,000 people and ...

An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan early on June 22 left at least 1,000 people dead and at least ...

ISLAMABAD—The Taliban terrorist group has released several British citizens who were detained in Afghanistan after an agreement was ...

JERUSALEM—Israel's outgoing coalition government will fast-track a bill this week to dissolve parliament, setting up the country for ...

A U.S. airman has been arrested by military law enforcement over an alleged insider explosives attack at a ...

Three Iranian fast-attack naval ships harassed two U.S. Navy ships entering the Persian Gulf, said Navy officials on ...

Having two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine has been linked with negative protection against symptomatic infection with the ...

DAMASCUS—Eleven government soldiers and two civilians were killed in an attack on a bus in northern Syria on ...

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Israel's foreign minister agreed to submit a bill to dissolve Parliament, according ...

JERUSALEM—Israel’s weakened coalition government decided Monday to dissolve parliament and call a new election, the country's fifth in ...

Britain's Anthony Joshua has been urged by Amnesty International to use the "platform" of his forthcoming world heavyweight ...

KABUL—The ISIS terrorist group claimed an attack on a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital Kabul on June ...

KABUL—An attack on a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital of Kabul killed at least two people and ...

A building collapsed early on Friday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo killed six people, authorities said, as ...

Rideau Hall has issued a statement saying Gov. Gen. Mary Simon "shares the public's concern" about a $93,000 ...

A coalition force led by the United States has announced an early-morning operation in Syria led to the ...

The White House on Tuesday confirmed President Joe Biden will visit Israel and Saudi Arabia on an upcoming ...

President Joe Biden is expected to make an announcement regarding a possible trip to Saudi Arabia as he ...

The head of the Brookings Institution resigned in the midst of a federal investigation into whether he lobbied ...

The rial, the fiat currency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, traded at its lowest ever value to ...

ISTANBUL—Heavy rainfall in Turkey's capital on Saturday led to flooding that killed one person, authorities said. Search and ...

When Afghanistan's capital city fell back under the control of the Taliban in 2021, Australian forces were among ...