The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday banned all flights to and from Iran over the outbreak of the new coronavirus, a day after its spread from Iran was announced across multiple Mideast nations. Iran raised the official death toll from the virus to 15 killed amid 95 confirmed infections.
Read moreDozens of cars in an Israeli Arab village were vandalized overnight, police said Tuesday, with slogans sprayed on a mosque indicating the involvement of Jewish extremists.
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The House passed two bills along party lines Thursday to restrict President Donald Trump’s ability to engage in military conflicts in the Middle East, including a repeal of a Bush-era authorization of military force.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lambasted President Trump’s Middle East peace as “absolutely unacceptable” in comments published Wednesday.
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In a White House room with no Palestinian representatives, and with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a Middle East peace plan supporting a two-state solution.
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Hydrocarbon gases bubbling from the bottom of the Red Sea are polluting the atmosphere at a rate equivalent to the emissions of some large fossil fuel exporting countries, researchers said Tuesday.
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Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah will join forces Tuesday in a rare meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah against President Donald Trump’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan, officials said.
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Producers of the game show “Jeopardy!” have apologized for a clue that waded into political hot water involving Israeli control of the West Bank, saying an incorrect version of the show was sent to television stations.
Read moreKing Abdullah of Jordan on Monday warned that the Islamic State group was regrouping and is on the rise again in the Middle East.
Read moreJust days after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid by U.S. special forces in October, the Islamic State group announced the name of the man who has replaced him as leader.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took to the world stage Thursday to slam the United States for “depriving the peace process of any credibility” and undermining prospects for a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Read moreThe Pentagon on Friday announced it will deploy additional U.S. troops and missile defense equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as President Donald Trump has at least for now put off any immediate military strike on Iran in response to the attack on the Saudi oil industry.
Read morePresident Donald Trump said Thursday that the official tasked with developing a peace plan for Israel is leaving the administration to pursue work in the private sector.
Read moreFacebook on Thursday said it derailed a pair of shady online influence campaigns in the Arabic-speaking world including one linked to the Saudi Arabian government.
Read moreThe U.S. peace envoy to Afghanistan said Saturday that for the first time he can report “substantive” progress on all four issues key to a peace agreement in the country’s 17-year war, calling the latest round of talks with the Taliban the “most productive” so far.
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A team of international scientists have used ancient DNA to shed some light on the origins of the Philistines, the arch enemies of the Israelites as told in the Hebrew Bible.
Read moreThe United States and Iran edged toward a flashpoint Monday as Tehran announced it was breaking compliance with the accord that keeps it from making nuclear weapons and the Trump administration followed by ordering 1,000 more troops to the Middle East.
Read moreThe Pentagon on Thursday will present plans to the White House to send up to 10,000 more troops to the Middle East, in a move to beef up defenses against potential Iranian threats, U.S. officials said.
Read moreLawmakers from both parties in Congress demanded more information on the White House’s claims of rising threats in the Middle East, warning President Trump away from a dangerous escalation with Iran.
Read moreCounting a dozen more deaths from the previous year, the International Federation of Journalists reported Monday that 2018 was a highly bloody one for the press.
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