Middle East
U.S. says its forces kill a senior Islamic State leader in Syria
The United States carried out a military operation that killed a senior Islamic State leader in Syria on Monday, U.S. Central Command ...OPEC+ announces surprise oil output cuts
Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ oil producers on Sunday announced further oil output cuts of around 1.16 million barrels per day, in ...Israel government in chaos as judicial reform plans draw mass protests
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition plunged into chaos on Monday, after mass overnight protests over the sacking of his defence chief ...Party pressure mounts on Netanyahu to pause judicial overhaul
A top lawmaker from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party echoed on Sunday a call by the defence chief to pause ...Two decades after Saddam’s fall, Iraqis still haunted by disappearances
When he first heard that U.S. troops had toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraqi engineer Hazem Mohammed thought he would finally be able to ...Three Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in West Bank
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians near a village close to the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, the Palestinian Health ...Israeli forces kill six in raid on West Bank refugee camp
Israeli forces raided a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least six Palestinian gunmen, including ...Nations secure U.N. global high seas biodiversity pact
Negotiators from more than 100 countries completed a U.N. treaty to protect the high seas on Saturday, a long-awaited step that environmental ...Protests break out in Iran over schoolgirl illnesses
Worried parents protested in Iran’s capital Tehran and other cities on Saturday over a wave of suspected poison attacks that have affected ...Turkey’s last Armenian village fears for its future after quake
In Turkey’s only remaining ethnic Armenian village, Vakifli, the elderly population thank God that not one of them died during the devastating ...













