Middle East

The Saudi execution of 47 persons early this month, including prominent Shi'ite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, severely aggravated an already icy bilateral relationship with Iran.

In recent months, we have been seeing the disintegration of another formerly stable relationship in the Middle East: ...

Deadly attacks in Baghdad and a nearby town have shattered the relative calm far from the front lines ...

The Kurds survived the oppression of Saddam Hussein's regime and are helping in the fight against the Islamic ...

By raising sectarian temperatures throughout the Middle East, the Saudis risk escalating the unaffordable proxy wars they’ve already ...

The Saudi decision to execute Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr at this particular juncture was a strategic act ...

A senior Arab official has called on Arab states to take a "clear stance" against Iran's alleged meddling ...

As a brutal winter set in across Iran, anonymous philanthropists throughout the country painted "Walls of Kindness" and ...

While many Iraqi Shiites took to the streets in outrage over Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shiite ...

Ever since Saudi Arabia executed Shia Cleric Nimr al-Nimr for terrorist offences, tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia ...

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the Arab Uprisings, it's hard to remember the days of popular ...

Iraq on Wednesday reiterated its demand that Turkish troops withdraw from a northern camp where they are training ...

Meddling by major foreign powers has long played a part in making the Middle East a volatile and ...

Deputy Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman's announcement of a new Saudi-led counterterrorism ...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday accepted Russia's long-standing demand that President Bashar Assad's future be ...

A Russian-led Middle East block is taking a shape that could fundamentally alter the region's politics and energy ...

The Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen's internationally recognized government said Monday that a planned truce with the country's Shiite ...

After terrorist attacks at home and abroad, more Americans than ever—but still less than half—support sending U.S. ground ...

Iraqi troops battling the Islamic State group on Tuesday captured a neighborhood on the outskirts of militant-held Ramadi ...

The number of Syrian refugees stranded in a remote desert area on the Jordanian border has tripled to ...

Syria's government on Monday accused the U.S.-led coalition of launching airstrikes on a Syrian army camp in the ...

Airstrikes hit several positions of the Islamic State group in its de facto capital of Raqqa in northern ...

Within hours of a contentious vote Wednesday night in the House of Commons authorizing military action in Syria, ...

Prime Minister David Cameron appealed to lawmakers Wednesday to authorize the military to take part in airstrikes in ...

Accused of running a network to recruit French extremists to fight in Syria, designated a terrorist by the ...

A Mexican archaeologist said his team has found a tunnel-like passageway that apparently leads to two sealed chambers, ...

The downing of Russia's plane by Turkish military forces over the skies of the Syrian-Turkish border has added ...