Middle East

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s top Shia Muslim cleric said a new prime minister must be chosen without foreign interference in…

SIMI VALLEY, CALIFORNIA (Reuters) – US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Friday he believed the US military had sufficient…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s highest Shia religious authority called on Friday for the formation of a new government within the…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s outgoing prime minister called on several Arab and world leaders on Friday to help his country…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece ordered the expulsion of the Libyan ambassador Friday, in the latest escalation of a dispute…

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The United Nations center in Libya was opened as an “alternative to detention,” a last, safe…

DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran on Thursday rejected pressure to shelve its ballistic missile program after a European letter to the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is considering sending several thousand additional troops to the Middle East to help deter Iranian…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian-American activist famous for her campaign against the Islamic Republic’s mandatory headscarf, or…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s state prosecutor said Thursday he intends to indict seven men, including close associates of Israeli Prime…