Never did the Westernized bourgeois girl, who escaped Lebanon’s rigid social conventions at only 21, imagine that cooking would become her full-time profession.
Iran is a cornerstone of stability in the Middle East in the face of the "terrorists" rocking the region, President Hassan Rouhani said Monday before leaving...
After about 15 hours of flying and five hours of meetings, sleep finally caught up with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Baghdad. It was 6:04 p.m.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei successfully underwent prostate surgery, official media announced Monday in an unprecedented public statement on...
Arab League Chief Nabil Elaraby calls for a military and political confrontation with ISIS jihadists and other militants he says threatened the existence of...
Nobody would dispute the danger inherent in possessing nuclear assets. But that danger becomes far more acute in a combat zone, where nuclear materials and...
Iekhan Safar moved from Iraq to a city in the middle of the American heartland for the same reason as hundreds of Yezidis, a Kurdish religious minority: to...
Earlier this week, Iran announced, through the head of its Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, that it supported the legal process to pick a...
The rusting hulks of tanks and field artillery are a common sight in the jungles of Peleliu, but the fighting that scarred the Pacific island in World War II...
When radical Islamist forces threatening to dismember Iraq unexpectedly captured several towns from the peshmerga Kurdish fighters last weekend, the Kurds’...
As indirect negotiations proceed in Egypt between Israel and Hamas following the war in Gaza, here is an assessment of the outcome so far of the monthlong...
Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region is pressing the Obama administration for sophisticated weapons it says Kurdish fighters need to push back Islamist...
The semiautonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq is pressing the Obama administration for sophisticated weapons to push back Islamist militants threatening...
US Airways plans to resume its direct flights from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv after a temporary ban from federal authorities on flights to Israel amid an...
Washington's top diplomat says global efforts to end 16 days of bloodshed in Gaza were progressing as the fighting raged on and airlines suspended flights...
The world seems very messy these days, which might be an occasion to examine the broad forces producing the turmoil.
A powerful Iranian general has emerged as the chief tactician in Iraq's fight against Sunni militants, working on the front lines alongside 120 advisers from...
Key dates in the rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who was sworn in Wednesday for a new seven-year term.
Kurdish pop singer Helly Luv says she will not be put off by death threats from Iraqi Islamist militants since release of her first music video but, drawing...
Iranian dissident Mehdi Khazali, who was serving a six-year prison sentence for acts against national security and spreading propaganda against the regime,...