VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and ...

During the 2011 Arab Spring, when popular protests toppled several Middle Eastern autocrats, the UAE rooted out any opposition. Throughout 2012, the UAE’s State Security Apparatus (SSA ...

Israel has used attacks on religious minority by forces loyal to Syria's new government to justify strikes across the border ...

His suggestion to call the body of water the “Arabian Gulf” has apparently done the impossible: Unite Iranians.

Dubai: The election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American to hold the papacy, has been met with a warm embrace by Catholics ...

The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread mainly across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, ...

A Newsweek map shows where Americans have been warned against traveling in the Middle East and Asia as tensions with Iran ...

Smoke rises to the sky in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) At least 12 people including children were killed overnight in Gaza by ...

Here's the latest: Israel says it intercepted a drone fired ‘from the east’ The Israeli military didn't specify where the drone might have come from, saying only that it was intercepted before ...

A pair of Japan-based U.S. destroyers has been operating in the Indian Ocean over the past month, as the Pentagon is enhancing its military presence in the nearby Middle East. A spokesperson for ...