Middle East

How Eva met Francesco: The golden couple at the heart of Europe’s Qatargate scandal The love story behind the biggest scandal to ever hit the European Parliament — and the...

As Israel’s invasion of Gaza advances southward, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin called up his Saudi and Israeli counterparts on Thursday. The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen were the primary focus of...

NICOSIA — The EU is missing the point with cycles of diplomacy focused on a federal unification of Cyprus and has to accept a two-state solution on the divided island,...

Emmanuel Macron is facing widespread pushback, even from within his own ranks, from critics who say the president breached France’s long-standing history of secularism after he attended a Jewish ceremony...

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. A US military official speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP that alarms had gone off and that “likely impact sounds” could be...

It has been more than ten years since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi overthrew Egypt’s first democratically elected president, the Islamist Mohamed Morsi, and he is still ruling the country with an...

News agency Reuters on Thursday said the Israel Defense Forces killed one of its journalists in Lebanon in October. In a detailed and wide-ranging investigation, Reuters said an Israeli tank...

LONDON — John Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, warned the U.K. and Germany against a “business as usual” approach to fossil fuels. Speaking to POLITICO’s Power Play...

Despite increasing pressure from the U.S. to rein in the war in Gaza, Israel’s defense minister is now suggesting his forces could soon open a northern second front to push...

Since the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7, voices in Washington have increasingly chastised the Biden administration for what they say is an inadequate enforcement of oil sanctions against Iran....