United Arab Emirates officials have engaged in secret talks with a Libyan military commander seeking the Gulf state’s help in exporting Libya’s oil outside of United Nations-approved channels, Libyan, Emirati and European officials said.
President Bashar al-Assad’s forces are maintaining pressure on Eastern Ghouta with arrests, military conscriptions and restricted food supplies months after the capture of the Damascus suburb in order to assert the government’s grip over the former rebel stronghold.
As he forged diplomatic ties with the West, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has been at loggerheads with the military and conservative establishment. Now, with his political survival in question, Mr. Rouhani is sounding a lot like Iran’s hard-liners.
The first female driver for Uber’s Middle East rival here is helping to set a new course for women integrating into the kingdom’s workforce now that they are allowed to take the wheel.
Islamic State fighters who fled into the desert to escape U.S.-backed forces in Syria and Iraq are staging renewed attacks, as friction among foreign powers hampers efforts to finish the terror group off.
The United Arab Emirates paints its battle for the Yemen port city of Hodeidah as pivotal, but has now suspended the advance on Houthi forces after confronting land mines, drones, snipers and humanitarian challenges.
A U.S. service member was killed and two others were wounded in an apparent insider attack in southern Afghanistan, the American-led military coalition said Saturday.
The Syrian regime and its ally, Russia, took control of an important border crossing with Jordan on Friday in a deal with antigovernment rebels that also included the surrender of four nearby towns in the country’s southwest.
Palestinians angry over their dysfunctional government and decrepit infrastructure are souring on Mahmoud Abbas, as the U.S. questions the 83-year-old statesman‘s interest in peace talks with Israel.
Saudi authorities are keeping a senior prince and several dozen businessmen and ex-government officials under detention, and more have recently been arrested as a corruption crackdown that began last fall extends into a longer-term campaign.
National-security adviser John Bolton said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s hold on power wasn’t a strategic issue for the U.S. and that President Donald Trump hoped to secure Russia’s help in evicting Iranian forces from the country.
Spreading unrest in Iran raises the prospect of broader antigovernment protests as the political leadership in Tehran faces mounting pressure from a Trump administration effort to cut off the country’s oil sales.
The Trump administration’s effort to freeze Iranian oil exports is boosting the fortunes of Tehran’s rival, Saudi Arabia, and putting the U.S. ally on a stronger footing for a showdown across the Persian Gulf.
The lifting of the female driving ban marked an extraordinary moment for this kingdom and showed how social overhauls are seeping into even the most conservative pockets here as Saudi women press for change.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged his people to stand up to the pressure being heaped upon the Islamic Republic, a day after the U.S. threatened to impose sanctions on countries that don’t stop importing Iranian oil.
Syrian forces backed by Russian airstrikes intensified an assault on the city of Daraa, expanding their campaign to retake an opposition stronghold in Syria’s southwest as the U.S. backed away from enforcing a cease-fire.
A rogue military commander who oversees the eastern half of Libya has handed control of vital oil facilities to a rival of the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli.
Hundreds protested in the Iranian capital while merchants in the city’s oldest bazaar shut their shops to protest economic woes and a collapsing currency as the U.S. restores sanctions.
The Syrian regime’s main military ally, Russia, carried out airstrikes Sunday in the country’s southwest, defying a cease-fire pact with the U.S. and Jordan.
Women from Riyadh to Jeddah and Saudi Arabia’s more conservative corners slid into driver’s seats to celebrate the end to the kingdom’s policy that prohibited women from obtaining a driving license.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife has been indicted on charges of fraud for allegedly ordering thousands of dollars of gourmet meals at government expense to the family’s official residence.
A court ruling allowed Iraq to move forward with an unprecedented hand recount of millions of ballots following a national election that rejected the political establishment but was also marred by fraud allegations.
When Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving endsSunday, many women in the kingdom say they still face a major obstacle to getting behind the wheel: the opposition of conservative men.
A Saudi-led military coalition said Yemeni forces captured the airport of Hodeidah, a milestone in their bid to wrest control of the Red Sea port from Houthi rebels without causing a humanitarian catastrophe.
Militants fired a volley of rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip, puncturing a tacit three-week cease-fire, in the latest flare-up in tensions between the two sides.