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Jul 12, 2020
A TV chef abandons unaffordable beef. Blackouts make for sweltering summer nights. Changing money feels like a drug deal: The financial meltdown means daily pain and a blow to a country's pride.
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Jul 11, 2020
She endeared herself to audiences with her grace, naturalism and comic skill. She fell ill after filming a TV series in May and died from Covid-19 in July.
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Jul 10, 2020
With hours to go before a deadline, Russia and China vetoed an attempt by Western members to extend approval for aid to be delivered via two border crossings from Turkey.
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Jul 10, 2020
Some officials say that a joint American-Israeli strategy is evolving — some might argue regressing — to a series of short-of-war clandestine strikes.
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Jul 09, 2020
The precise location of Friday's explosion was unclear, but analysts said there are several military and training facilities in the area.
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Jul 09, 2020
The United States provided no evidence that its fatal January drone strike against General Suleimani was in response to an imminent threat, said a United Nations special rapporteur.
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Jul 09, 2020
Three months of lockdown slowed its pulse, stripped its grit and exposed a new side to a weary city. But without the noise, bustle and grind, was it really Cairo?
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Jul 08, 2020
In a country where women are often blamed when they are sexually assaulted, the arrest of an Egyptian student has raised hopes for changing attitudes.
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Jul 08, 2020
The businessman, Kassim Tajideen, convicted in a sanctions-evasion scheme involving Hezbollah, was released early because of fears of coronavirus infection.
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Jul 07, 2020
The analyst, Hisham al-Hashimi, was a proponent of government efforts to rein in the Islamic State and Iraq's Shiite militias. Suspicion fell on both groups.
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Jul 06, 2020
The pandemic and economic crises have caused many workers to lose their jobs. Some have been detained, abused, deprived of wages and stranded far from home with nowhere to turn for help.
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Jul 05, 2020
A Middle Eastern intelligence official said Israel planted a bomb in a building where advanced centrifuges were being developed.
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Jul 05, 2020
In his push for economic development, Turkey's president has flooded the archaeological gem of Hasankeyf and displaced thousands of families.
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Jul 03, 2020
Supporters of the slain journalist expressed hope that the proceedings would offer a chance for justice. The defendants are to be tried in absentia.
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Jul 01, 2020
Surging outbreaks in the U.S. Embassy and the kingdom and quiet congressional pressure led the State Department belatedly to allow voluntary departures. Some demand more action.
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Jul 01, 2020
Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, added his voice to the chorus of foreign leaders opposing any unilateral annexation of the occupied West Bank.
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Jul 01, 2020
Robert C. O'Brien, the national security adviser, told Fox News that President Trump knew nothing about the reports because the briefer "decided not to" share unverified intelligence with him.
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Jul 01, 2020
High-level clearance is not required to see that the list of Russian aggressions in recent weeks rivals some of the worst days of the Cold War.
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Jun 30, 2020
Members of the United Nations Security Council criticized both Iran and the United States for escalating the conflict.
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Jun 30, 2020
As the civil war enters its 10th year, Syria's economy is collapsing and the pandemic is adding to the woes. Donors pledged $7.7 billion in aid Tuesday, an amount not nearly enough to end the misery.
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Jun 30, 2020
A gas leak in a medical clinic in northern Tehran caused the blast, news reports said.
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Jun 30, 2020
With the civil war in its 10th year, Syria's economy is collapsing and the coronavirus looms, a donor pledging conference falls short of last year's totals.
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Jun 30, 2020
Ruhollah Zam once ran a popular news service that helped share information about the widespread protests in 2017. He had been exiled in France until October, when he traveled to Iraq and then disappeared.
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Jun 30, 2020
Satellite photographs show the explosion happened at a missile production facility. Iran said the episode was a gas explosion at a different military base.
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Jun 29, 2020
Satellite photographs show the explosion happened at a missile production facility. Iran said the episode was a gas explosion at a different military base.
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Jun 29, 2020
The United States has put the ambassador to Israel's Malibu-style seaside estate on the market. It can be yours for only $87 million.
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Jun 29, 2020
A Tehran prosecutor said that Iran had asked for international help in detaining people involved in the drone strike that killed the powerful general.
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Jun 28, 2020
Migrants say Houthi militia who control northern Yemen are brutally forcing them out of their territory and into dangerous situations.
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Jun 26, 2020
Iraqi forces detained 14 members of the group, Khataib Hezbollah, to send a message that "no one is above the law."
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Jun 25, 2020
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touted a rare public opening between the two countries. Apparently, the Emirates was not ready for it.
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Jun 25, 2020
A scholar of European fascism (and a bomb attack target), he feared ultranationalism in Israel and saw West Bank settlements as "a cancer."
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Jun 25, 2020
Discussions are underway about ending an informal review process because lawmakers from both parties have held up arms sales to Saudi Arabia over civilian casualties in Yemen.
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Jun 25, 2020
The partnership would be a rare public opening between two key United States allies in the Middle East, and a step toward normalization.
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Jun 24, 2020
Special Operations forces used a secret weapon designed to limit civilian casualties to strike the Qaeda veteran this month.
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Jun 24, 2020
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to annex territory along the Jordan border. Palestinian residents wonder where that leaves them.
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Jun 24, 2020
As mass infections strike even in places that had seemed to tame the coronavirus, officials are turning to targeted and fast-but-flexible approaches to stop third or fourth waves.
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Jun 24, 2020
As mass infections strike even in places that had seemed to tame the coronavirus, officials are turning to targeted and fast-but-flexible approaches to stop third or fourth waves.
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Jun 23, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic upended the plans of millions of Muslims, for whom the once-in-a-lifetime trip is a sacred milestone.
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Jun 23, 2020
The company announced the prohibition after researchers reported that looters were using the platform to identify and sell illegally excavated antiquities.
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Jun 22, 2020
Saudi Arabia said only "very limited numbers" of pilgrims could perform the hajj this year, with only Saudis and foreign nationals already in the kingdom allowed to take part.
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Jun 22, 2020
U.S. and Israeli officials are divided on whether annexation is a means to get Palestinians to the table, or whether the peace plan is a means to get annexation.
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Jun 22, 2020
Alaa Mousa, who worked in a prison, is expected to be charged with crimes against humanity. He is the third former Syrian official to be detained in Germany.
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Jun 21, 2020
The gunman who killed three in Florida was not directed by Al Qaeda, nor inspired solely by online ideology. He was a new kind of terrorist, harder to spot: an extremely enterprising freelancer.
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Jun 19, 2020
The judge, on trial for bribery in Iran and known as a notorious jailer of journalists, plunged six stories in what is being called an apparent suicide.
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Jun 19, 2020
The judge, on trial for bribery in Iran and known as a notorious jailer of journalists, plunged six stories in what is being called an apparent suicide.
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Jun 19, 2020
The Neutrogena and Clean & Clear products, which were advertised as dark-spot reducers and were sold in Asia and the Middle East, will soon come off the shelves, the manufacturer said.
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Jun 19, 2020
The United States and the big European powers came together to declare they had serious concerns about Tehran's failure to allow inspectors into two locations.
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Jun 19, 2020
Unilaterally taking territory the Palestinians have counted on for a state could cement Benjamin Netanyahu's legacy. It could also destabilize the region.
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Jun 18, 2020
The private equity firm he founded, Investcorp, tapped into Persian Gulf oil money and once purchased Tiffany and Co., Gucci and other Western brands.
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Jun 18, 2020
Nearly 80 million people, or 1 percent of humanity, now qualify as refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced.
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Jun 18, 2020
The Russians, who said they were doing sociology research, were jailed on charges of political meddling. It's the latest tale of foreign intrigue in Libya.
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Jun 16, 2020
In one city ruined by war, even the stones seem to have voices. They tell the stories of people who can no longer speak for themselves.
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Jun 15, 2020
President Bashar al-Assad faces threats he cannot bomb into submission, as protests erupt over living standards and a rift opens among the ruling elite.
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Jun 15, 2020
Charged with "inciting debauchery," Sarah Hegazi was jailed and tortured.
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Jun 15, 2020
As Syria's economy implodes and its currency collapses, President Bashar al-Assad faces threats he cannot bomb his way out of.
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Jun 13, 2020
The discovery of eight mass graves near Tripoli was a grim reminder of the atrocities that have punctuated the country's conflict.
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Jun 12, 2020
In a watershed op-ed article, an influential Arab diplomat wrote, in Hebrew, that normalization with Israel would not survive a unilateral land grab at the Palestinians' expense.
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Jun 11, 2020
Ignoring U.S. arguments that the charges were baseless, a court convicted Metin Topuz of aiding the group that Turkey accuses of masterminding a 2016 coup attempt.
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Jun 11, 2020
Demonstrations broke out across the country after the pound sank to a new low against the U.S. dollar, obliterating the purchasing power of many Lebanese.
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Jun 10, 2020
Congress is looking into whether Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked President Trump to fire Steve Linick, the department's inspector general, to retaliate for investigations.
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Jun 10, 2020
The growing pressure on the United States to reduce its military presence in Iraq comes as strikes by the Islamic State are on the rise.
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Jun 10, 2020
His books and novels were consumed by identity, as a Tunisian-born Jew who fled to France, and as a left-wing Zionist who supported a Palestinian homeland.
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Jun 10, 2020
The new law marks the nation's first legal protection for children and adolescents, though it does not address child marriages nor juveniles sentenced to death.
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Jun 10, 2020
A Syrian pharmacist volunteered to help prepare for the onset of the coronavirus in a region crowded with war refugees. Here is his account.
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Jun 09, 2020
Palestinian landowners will now be able to move ahead with lawsuits to recover privately owned property on which nearly 4,000 Jewish homes had been built in the occupied West Bank.
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Jun 08, 2020
The new law marks the nation's first legal protection for children and adolescents, though it does not address child marriages nor juveniles sentenced to death.
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Jun 08, 2020
Officials in the West Bank say they are willing to let the Palestinian Authority collapse if Israel applies its sovereignty over occupied territory.
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Jun 07, 2020
The so-called honor killing of a 14-year-old girl in Iran has shaken the country and forced an examination of its failure to protect women and children.
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Jun 06, 2020
Khalifa Hifter saw the collapse this week of his 14-month campaign to capture Tripoli from a government backed by the U.N. and Turkey.
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Jun 05, 2020
The president's invitation came as international inspectors were said to have found that Iran had boosted its stockpile of low-enriched uranium in the past three months.
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Jun 04, 2020
As the West settles into a grinding battle with the disease, the virus surges across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and South Asia.
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Jun 04, 2020
As the West settles into a grinding battle with the disease, the virus surges across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and South Asia.
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Jun 04, 2020
Belligerents on all sides of the Libyan conflict, including Turkey, Russia and the U.A.E., are preparing for a new stage after a pullback by the forces of the commander, Khalifa Hifter.
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Jun 04, 2020
The release of Michael R. White, announced by his mother in the United States and tweeted by President Trump, came a day after an Iranian scientist held by the American authorities was returned to Iran.
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Jun 04, 2020
A settler himself, Avigdor Liberman taunts Israel's prime minister for talking endlessly about annexing West Bank territory, giving opponents time to mobilize.
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Jun 02, 2020
There are expectations that the return of the scientist, Sirous Asgari, could lead to the release of an American in Iran. Speculation has focused on Michael R. White, 48, a Navy veteran held for nearly two years.
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Jun 02, 2020
The country has been hammered by years of war, hunger and disease. Is the world prepared to watch it "fall off the cliff?" a United Nations official asks.
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Jun 02, 2020
Memories of 2011's Arab Spring, and its fragile hopes, have been revived in the minds of many Egyptians as they've watched a strikingly similar dynamic play out in the United States.
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Jun 01, 2020
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to annex much of the occupied West Bank. But now that he can, there are questions about whether he will.
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May 31, 2020
The children are living in squalid detention camps lacking schools, health care and clean water, and where disease and jihadist ideology are rampant.
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May 30, 2020
Lacking equipment, expertise and authority, a divided, war-torn country bobbles a response to a surging pandemic.
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May 28, 2020
Even positive portrayals of Muslim Americans after 9/11 seemed burdened with a responsibility to explain and defend. But that burden is starting to be cast off.
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May 26, 2020
The unusually sharp assertion by a senior American commander underscored the Pentagon's concern about Moscow's growing influence in the country's sprawling war.
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May 26, 2020
For six years, Australia has tried to extradite Malka Leifer to face charges of sexually assaulting her students but she claimed to be mentally ill.
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May 25, 2020
Overcrowded, makeshift prisons and camps and fears of Covid-19 have led to two riots by hardened fighters.
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May 25, 2020
A short-lived mission uncovered by U.N. investigators offers a glimpse into the world of those who have thrived off Libya's chaos.
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May 25, 2020
A short-lived mission uncovered by U.N. investigators offers a glimpse into the world of those who have thrived off Libya's chaos.
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May 24, 2020
In Germany, 40 new cases were confirmed among the faithful in Frankfurt. France restarted church services this weekend. And protesters in the West Bank demanded that mosques reopen for the Eid holiday.
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May 24, 2020
The prime minister's trial is expected to last a year or more, with the first witnesses not expected to testify for months. He has long maintained his innocence.
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May 23, 2020
Protesters have long said threats and abductions by militias were routine. United Nation investigators have begun to substantiate the claims.
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May 22, 2020
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei openly acknowledged, apparently for the first time, Iran's support for armed Palestinian groups fighting Israel.
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May 22, 2020
The pardon effectively ends the prospect that any of the men who killed Jamal Khashoggi will be executed.
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May 21, 2020
With a succession of quick victories, Turkish-supported forces in Libya have rolled back the gains of a would-be strongman whose allies, Russia and the United Arab Emirates, now face tough choices.
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May 21, 2020
A tireless advocate for human rights and a thorn in the side of the monarchy, he spoke out for democratic reforms and was imprisoned seven times.
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May 21, 2020
Saad Aljabri knows "where the bodies are buried." Now Saudi authorities are arresting his relatives to force him to return to the kingdom, his son says.
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May 21, 2020
A strict weekend curfew quiets the city's joyous commotion, but offers up new moments of breathtaking beauty, both spiritual and natural. And essential sweets are still delivered.
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May 20, 2020
The Palestinian leader has promoted security cooperation with Israel in his quest for a Palestinian state. That strategy may have hit a dead end.
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May 20, 2020
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 41, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2016 after she was accused of plotting to overthrow the government in Tehran. She has vigorously denied the charges.
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May 19, 2020
Despite the heated rhetoric on both sides, Iran has toned down its approach to the West on several fronts, and the U.S. has reciprocated.
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May 19, 2020
Israel was behind a cyberattack that disrupted a major port in Iran, done in response to an attempt by the Revolutionary Guards to infiltrate an Israeli water facility.
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