Old Middle East

CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told Israel's new leader on Monday it was important to follow through on...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's military spokesman on Monday condemned U.S. air strikes against militia targets on the border with Syria...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Reconstruction of Gaza after last month's fighting between Israel and Hamas is being held...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on a power station in Iraq, the group's Nasheer...

By Humeyra Pamuk ROME (Reuters) -Israel has serious reservations about the Iran nuclear deal being put together in Vienna, new...

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - The Israelis come trained by war. The Mexicans, by natural disaster. Search-and-rescue teams from Mexico...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will start inoculating young people aged 12 to 18 against COVID-19 with the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Saturday deployed security forces to confront protesters who took to the...

(Fixes typo in spelling of analyst's name to "Halawa" not Halwa) By Amina Ismail CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt's President Abdel Fattah...

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel summoned Poland's ambassador on Sunday to express its "deep disappointment" over a Polish...

LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has released two women's rights activists detained nearly three years ago after they had served...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has drones with a range of 7,000 km (4,375 miles), Iranian state media cited the top...

ADEN (Reuters) - Fighting between Yemen's warring parties in the gas-rich Marib region, the recognised government's last northern stronghold, intensified...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A former president of Israel's Supreme Court was appointed on Sunday to head its state commission of...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will meet his U.S. and Bahraini counterparts in Rome on Sunday, Lapid's...

CAIRO - (Reuters) - Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi headed on Saturday evening to the United States for his usual,...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd that gathered for a Pride parade in central...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday it believes a reinstatement of its 2015 nuclear deal with major world powers...

By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday launched a $15 billion canal project intended to...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Iraqi paramilitary fighters, including powerful Iran-backed factions, marched at a military base in eastern Iraq...