Middle East

IRBIL, Iraq — Snow globes, teddy bears and makeup brushes — these were the trinkets left behind in northern Iraq by Maryam Nouri who perished this week along with at...

JERUSALEM — Can the landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers be restored? As Iran and six global powers gather in Vienna Monday to discuss the tattered treaty,...

CALAIS, France — At the makeshift camps in France near Calais and Dunkirk, migrants are digging in, waiting for their chance to make a dash across the English Channel despite...

BRUSSELS — Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is racing to contain a new coronavirus variant potentially more dangerous than the one that has fueled relentless waves...

Security forces in Iran have moved against demonstrators protesting against water shortages in a dried-up riverbed. Thousands of farmers and their supporters have been protesting for more than two weeks...

IRBIL, Iraq — Defeated but somewhat relieved, a second group of Iraqis on Friday returned home to northern Iraq after a failed quest to reach the European Union, citing maltreatment...

BEIRUT — A small group of protesters broke into a ministry building in Beirut early Friday and removed a photo of the president from one of its main rooms, as...

CAIRO — Thousands of Sudanese took to the streets on Thursday in the capital of Khartoum, renewing their demand for a fully civilian government and denouncing the country’s military rulers...

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya’s top electoral body on Wednesday disqualified the son and onetime heir apparent of the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi from running for president in elections to be...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government said Wednesday that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has gone to the battlefront to take charge in a yearlong war and left the daily work of...