Jordan's House of Representatives has given a vote of confidence to a new government that was formed after nationwide protests.
Saudi Arabia's state-owned defense company has forged a deal with Spanish shipbuilder Navantia for a joint venture to build five warships, state media said Thursday.
Iraq's government may have muddled its way through violent street protests in the country's oil-rich south with promises of jobs and better services, but the root causes of this month's unrest remain almost intact and it could be just a matter of time before popular discontent boils over again.
Egyptian archaeologists on Thursday dashed local hopes that a newly discovered ancient sarcophagus might contain the remains of Alexander the Great, finding instead the mummies of what appeared to be a family of three.
Ten buses entered a village in Syria's Qunaitra province in the southwest on Thursday night to start evacuating insurgents to rebel territory in the north,...
Holidaymakers are returning to the Tunisian seaside this summer in a marked turnaround three years since dozens of tourists were killed on one of the...
Israeli judges on Thursday sentenced two Palestinians to life in jail for murdering their employer, the court said, in an October attack authorities labeled...
FIFA has fined Egypt's soccer federation $50,000 for playing a World Cup warm-up game during a prohibited period.
In the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, the protagonist, a Sumerian king, journeys to Mount Lebanon, deforests its famed cedar trees and beheads the demigod...
Lebanon is set to gain a small power boost after a new Turkish power barge officially docked Wednesday evening in the coastal Chouf town of Jiyyeh.
Eyes popping in astonishment, his mouth hanging mutely open, 7-year-old Joel approaches the 4-meter-high monster and stands nose-to-nose with one of the...
Ethiopia and Eritrea Wednesday resumed commercial airline flights for the first time in two decades, with emotions spilling over into the aisles and onto the...
The chief observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Lebanon told President Michel Aoun Monday that the mission’s assessment of the May...
The Interior Ministry’s elections operations room said Friday there were “no lost expatriate votes” in the parliamentary elections, adding that the ministry...
Turkey on Thursday slammed a new law adopted by Israel's parliament defining the country as the nation state of the Jewish people, saying the legislation...
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient pottery manufacturing workshop dating to more than 4,000 years ago.
An Israeli airstrike killed a Hamas fighter and wounded three in southern Gaza, the enclave’s Health Ministry said Thursday, in a development that threatens...
Preacher Moqtada al-Sadr, whose political bloc won Iraq's May 12 election, called on all politicians to delay efforts to form a new government until the...
The European Union on Thursday said it was concerned about a new Israeli law which declares that only Jews have the right of self determination, and said it...
Israeli police have briefly detained a liberal rabbi in the city of Haifa over performing "illegal" Jewish weddings without authorization of the country's...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's chief of staff claims the president rejected eight requests from President Donald Trump last year for one-on-one talks.
A U.S. delegation of Treasury and State Department officials will meet Turkish authorities on Friday to discuss sanctions targeting Iran, an official from...
Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to Abu Dhabi in his first trip to the United Arab Emirates as the leader of China and as the two countries look to...
President Bashar Assad is set to recover control of the Syrian frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in a major victory over rebels who have agreed...
Israel's Parliament has approved a controversial piece of legislation that defines the country as the nation-state of the Jewish people but, critics warn,...
Several thousand residents evacuated two pro-regime towns in northern Syria Thursday, putting an end to one of the longest sieges of the country's seven-year...
More than 100 buses arrived Wednesday to evacuate thousands of people from two loyalist Syrian villages that are besieged by rebels in the northwest, under a...
The White House struggled Wednesday to contain the furor over President Donald Trump’s heavily criticized summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin,...
In the heat of battle against Daesh (ISIS), Iraqis united against a common enemy.
Three civilians were killed and nine wounded when a mortar shell hit a crowded market in southwestern Yemen, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Wednesday.
While foreign diplomats often struggle to win over ordinary Iraqis, Japan’s departing ambassador has stolen hearts – thanks to witty social media videos in...
Over 200 Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem and performed religious prayers ahead of a Jewish holiday, local media...
The Tunisian Parliament Tuesday approved a law to combat illicit enrichment, a step designed to strengthen the government’s fight against corruption in the...
A Palestinian startup company touted as a model for Gaza entrepreneurship is currently struggling to recover after its office was badly damaged last weekend...
Iran has built a factory that can produce rotors for up to 60 centrifuges a day, the head of its atomic agency said Wednesday, upping the stakes in a major...