Middle East
Israel, Palestinians defuse agricultural trade crisis
Israel’s defense minister said Thursday that the country would allow Palestinian agricultural exports, a move aimed at defusing what has been an ...UN balks as Yemen rebels try to control the flow of aid
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have blocked half of the United Nations’ aid delivery programs in the war-torn country — a strong-arm tactic to ...Iraqis wanted to topple the system, but taboos fell instead
Mocking clerics, falling in love at rallies and mending a broken society: even if Iraq’s young protesters have failed to overthrow entrenched ...Assad’s forces make advances, further securing Aleppo region
Syrian troops have made significant advances against the last rebel held enclaves in the country’s northwest, state media said on Sunday, consolidating ...Air strikes on Yemen kill 31 civilians after Saudi jet crash
Thirty-one people were killed in air strikes on Yemen Saturday, the United Nations said, the victims of an apparent Saudi-led retaliation after ...Regime offensive in NW Syria displaces more than 800,000: UN
A Russia-backed Syrian regime offensive on the last major rebel bastion in the country’s northwest has displaced more than 800,000 people since ...Saudi-led forces to face trial over Yemen violations
The Saudi-led coalition fighting Huthi rebels will put on trial military personnel suspected of being behind deadly air strikes on civilians in ...Turkey, Russia trade accusations as Syria tensions rise
Turkey’s president accused Russia of committing “massacres” in its support of the Syrian government on Wednesday, escalating a war of words as ...Turkey says it has retaliated after deadly Syrian shelling
Turkey said it retaliated Monday after “intense” shelling by Syrian forces killed five of its soldiers and wounded five others in Syria’s ...Yemen al-Qaeda leader al-Rimi killed in US operation, says Trump
President Donald Trump confirmed Thursday that the US had killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — days after the ...














