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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but he has managed to save his regime at the cos...

Protests erupted across many of Jordan's cities and provincial towns against the government's coronavirus restrictions, a day after oxygen...

British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe appeared in a Tehran court Sunday to face new charges of "propaganda against the sy...

From Tunisia​ to Syria​, Egypt​ to Yemen​, a wave of revolutions set the Arab world alight in 2011. Ten years on, our reporters take a look...

Turkey is torn between the deeply secular heritage of its founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the state religion now promoted by President Re...

Lebanon has seen the value of its currency plunge 85 percent in the space of less than two years. Experts say the Lebanese financial meltdo...

A Saudi court on Tuesday upheld the original sentence of women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, who had championed women’s right to d...

The fate of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman in detention in Tehran, is linked to an arms deal dating back to the reign o...

Lebanese protesters set up new road blocks Tuesday to vent anger over political inaction in the face of deepening poverty, but security for...

Lebanese protesters set up new road blocks Tuesday to vent anger over political inaction in the face of deepening poverty, but security forc...

The Saudi-led military coalition battling Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Sunday it conducted air strikes on Houthi military t...

Israel took another step towards post-pandemic normalcy on Sunday, opening restaurants, bars and cafes to vaccinated "green pass" holders,...

The people of Qaraqosh – a northern Iraqi city that was controlled by the Islamic State group from 2014 to 2016 – were rebuilding their cit...

Pope Francis condemned violent religious extremism Saturday during an interfaith prayer service at the site of the ancient city of Ur, wher...

Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the top religious authority for most Shiite Muslims, hosted the head of the world's Catholics, Pope Fra...

Hundreds of people vaccinated against Covid-19 packed a Tel Aviv football stadium Friday for the first of four concerts organised by the mu...

Back in 2003, there were around 1.4 million Christians living in Iraq. Now, almost two decades on, following the US-led invasion and the Is...

High stakes, high risks for the first papal visit ever to Iraq. It's a trip Pope Francis said he could no longer put off. This is despite t...

Yemen's Houthi forces fired a cross-border missile at a Saudi Aramco facility in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea city of Jeddah, a Houthi military s...

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Wednesday she has launched an investigation into alleged crimes in the Palestinian...

At least 10 rockets targeted a military base in western Iraq that hosts US-led coalition troops on Wednesday, the coalition and the Iraqi m...

In defiance of both the Covid-19 pandemic and security concerns, Pope Francis has confirmed that the first ever papal visit to Iraq is goin...

Protesters blocked roads with burning tyres and dumpsters across Lebanon on Tuesday after the currency tumbled to a new low in a financial...

While Israel has now vaccinated more than half of its population against Covid-19 with an initial dose, dozens of Israelis protested on Thur...

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two commanders of Yemen's Houthi rebels, blaming them for civilian deaths and denouncing...