Middle East

The Pentagon announced Sunday that the single U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Middle East, the USS Nimitz, will remain on duty in the region amid heightened tensions with Iran. ...

DUBAI—Iran executed a man on Thursday who had been convicted of murder 12 years ago when he was ...

Maritime security companies said a suspicious object—possibly a type of mine—was discovered on an oil tanker off the ...

ADEN—At least 20 people were killed and dozens wounded in an attack on Yemen's Aden airport on Wednesday ...

Two B-52H "Stratofortress" bombers flew a 30-hour round-trip mission from the United States to the Persian Gulf on ...

Vice President Mike Pence will not visit Israel in early January, according to the U.S. Embassy. A spokesperson ...

AMMAN—Twenty-eight people were killed in an attack on a bus along a main highway in Syria's Deir al-Zor ...

ISTANBUL—An earthquake with a 5.3 magnitude shook Elazig province in eastern Turkey on Sunday. Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman ...

DUBAI—At least eight climbers have died and several more are missing in mountains north of Iran's capital Tehran ...

A missile strike on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad has President Donald Trump publicly calling out Iran. After ...

President Donald Trump issued a warning to Iran after rockets were fired at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, ...

Israel is heading to its fourth election in two years after its Parliament failed to pass a new ...

BERLIN—Germany has organized the return of three women and 12 children from camps in northeastern Syria for humanitarian ...

Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the ...

The United States on Wednesday said it has imposed sanctions on several companies that have been involved in ...

Seven men are facing firearms and cocaine supply charges after being arrested during raids by NSW counter terrorism ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia's port city of Jiddah suffered an explosion early Monday ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iran executed an exiled journalist on Dec. 12 over his online work that helped inspire ...

President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 10 that Israel and Morocco have agreed to restore full diplomatic relations ...

The Senate on Wednesday narrowly rejected two Democrat-led measures to block President Donald Trump’s proposed $23 billion sale ...

KIRKUK—Two wells in a small oilfield in northern Iraq were set ablaze by explosives in a "terrorist attack" on ...

WASHINGTON— The United States imposed terrorism sanctions on Iran's envoy to the Houthis on Tuesday, a step possibly ...

It was like a scene from an action movie, except totally unscripted and genuinely life-threatening, involving a stunning ...

The Pentagon announced that it will be sending the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and its strike group back ...

ANTWERP, Belgium—An Iranian diplomat and three other Iranians went on trial in Belgium on Friday accused of planning ...

Iranian physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the alleged head of Iran's nuclear program, was shot and killed in a purported ...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday defended President Donald Trump’s plan to reduce the number of ...