An hour later, the enemy fighters had started to retreat and the American troops stopped firing.  From the ...

An hour later, the enemy fighters had started to retreat and the American troops stopped firing.  From their outpost, the commandos watched the mercenaries and Syrian fighters return to collect their d ...

LONDON — Saudi Arabia is escalating its crackdown on activists who had pressed for the right of women to ...

LONDON — Saudi Arabia is escalating its crackdown on activists who had pressed for the right of women to drive, bringing the number arrested to at least 11 and publicly branding them as “traitors. ”The ...

CAIRO — For the past decade, Wael Abbas has been a fierce critic of Egypt’s authoritarian leaders, using ...

CAIRO — For the past decade, Wael Abbas has been a fierce critic of Egypt’s authoritarian leaders, using YouTube to highlight police torture, and building up a huge Twitter following that he used to d ...

When an explosion nearly razed Iran’s long-range missile research facility in 2011 — and killed the milit ...

When an explosion nearly razed Iran’s long-range missile research facility in 2011 — and killed the military scientist who ran it — many Western intelligence analysts viewed it as devastating to Tehra ...

The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday urged the International Criminal Court to immediately carry out a fu ...

The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday urged the International Criminal Court to immediately carry out a full investigation into what it described as the successive and continuing Israeli crimes against ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian capital of Damascus and its surrounding suburbs are entirely free of rebel f ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian capital of Damascus and its surrounding suburbs are entirely free of rebel fighters for the first time in seven years, the government said on Monday. That milestone was ach ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used his first major policy address to deliver a hard-line sp ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used his first major policy address to deliver a hard-line speech on Monday, in which he demanded that Iran change just about everything regarding its behav ...

An Iranian-British woman imprisoned in Iran faces a new charge of “spreading propaganda against the regim ...

An Iranian-British woman imprisoned in Iran faces a new charge of “spreading propaganda against the regime,” her husband said in a statement released on Monday. Iranian judicial authorities did not con ...

The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, was hospitalized in the West Bank on Sunday, doctors and Palest ...

The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, was hospitalized in the West Bank on Sunday, doctors and Palestinian officials said, giving conflicting accounts of the leader’s condition. It is the third tim ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Saudi Arabia has detained at least five people connected to the campaign to end the kin ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Saudi Arabia has detained at least five people connected to the campaign to end the kingdom’s longtime ban on women driving, despite the fact that the government has promised to lift ...