Middle East

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Bahrain’s Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, one of the world’s longest-serving prime ministers who led his island nation’s government for decades and survived the 2011 Arab ...

The Austrian government has proposed to allow courts to jail those convicted of terrorism-related offences for as long ...

Three people were wounded in a bomb blast on Wednesday during an international event marking the Armistice Day ...

WASHINGTON—The United States on Tuesday imposed Iran-related sanctions on six companies and four people, accusing the network of ...

MOSCOW/YEREVAN/BAKU—Russian peacekeeping troops deployed to the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as part of a ceasefire deal ...

Australia's Defence Force (ADF) Chief Angus Campbell confirmed on Friday that he had received a report into alleged ...

LYON, France—A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a ...

NABLUS, West Bank—A Palestinian motorist fired a pistol at Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday ...

ANKARA, Turkey—The death toll in last week’s Aegean Sea earthquake rose to 116 on Wednesday as rescuers in ...

Gunmen stormed the campus of Kabul University in Afghanistan on Nov. 2, killing at least 19 people and ...

Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne welcomed the Qatari Prime Minister's apology on Friday for the mistreatment of ...

A strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has shaken Turkey and Greece. Several buildings were wrecked in Turkey's ...

NEW YORK—An Afghan man has been brought to the United States to face charges in the 2008 gunpoint ...

Australia's transport union, the TWU, will meet on Thursday to discuss boycotting state-owned Qatar Airways following an incident ...

France has warned its citizens to take extra safety precautions while living or traveling abroad, as Muslims in ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Muslims in the Middle East and beyond on Monday broadened their calls for boycotts of ...

KABUL—Afghan security forces have killed Abu Muhsin al-Masri, a senior al-Qaeda leader who was on the Federal Bureau ...

President Donald Trump said on Oct. 23 that he expects Saudi Arabia will be among "at least five" ...

Israel and Sudan agreed on Friday to take steps to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the ...

WASHINGTON—The United States on Monday said it blacklisted two Chinese men and six Chinese entities for having dealt ...

MANAMA—President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy said on Sunday that Trump's push for an Israeli-Arab rapprochement was gaining ...

JERUSALEM—A high-level delegation of American and Israeli officials landed in Bahrain on Sunday on a mission to cement ...

A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons such as tanks and ...

DUBAI—Two U.S. nationals held by Houthi rebels in Yemen have been released, Omani state media said on Wednesday, ...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday urged Saudi Arabia to consider normalizing relations with Israel as ...

WASHINGTON—An American humanitarian worker and a U.S. businessman held captive by Iranian-backed terrorists in Yemen were released on ...

YEREVAN/BAKU—Azerbaijan accused Armenia on Wednesday of trying to attack its gas and oil pipelines and warned of a ...