German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for European unity in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s criticism of the trans-Atlantic alliance and the EU.
The verdict overturns the government’s decision to transfer sovereignty of two Red Sea islands to Riyadh, an embarrassing setback for President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.
The extraordinary vagueness of the views expressed by President-elect Donal Trump about the Middle East’s many conflicts has allowed many regional leaders to imagine that a Trump administration will support them, writes Yaroslav Trofimov.
Oman accepted 10 detainees from the U.S.’s Guantanamo Bay facility on, as President Barack Obama tries to reduce prisoner numbers there in the last days of his administration.
Investors, seeking higher returns, have moved into an area once the preserve of wealthy collectors.
Some 75 governments and international groups used Sunday’s gathering in Paris to send a message to President-elect Trump that the only viable solution to the conflict is the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Russia’s Defense Ministry dismissed allegations by the U.S. Air Force that its planes regularly fly too close to U.S. fighter jets, risking collision in the crowded skies above Syria.
Islamic State militants were ousted from the Mosul University campus, a strategic victory for U.S.-backed government troops fighting to retake the extremist group’s last major stronghold in the country.
Ex-Marine Elliot Ackerman’s second novel, a love story set during the Syrian civil war, drew inspiration from a five-hour lunch with a former al Qaeda jihadist.
A new generation of American veteran fiction writers use their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan to shape their work
A migrant ship carrying around 100 people capsized in the frigid waters off Libya on Saturday and only four survivors have been rescued after hours of searching, aid groups said.
Islamic State militants launched a new offensive on government-held areas in the contested city of Deir Ezzour, attacking the eastern city from several sides in the most intense action in a year.
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power urged the incoming Trump administration not to cut funding to the United Nations, warning it would be detrimental to U.S. interests and benefit countries such as China and Russia.
In photos selected by Wall Street Journal editors on Friday, a frozen fox in Germany, Palestinians protest, rats drink milk in India, and more.
Iraqi troops on Friday breached the Mosul University campus used by Islamic State as a military facility, in what officials said was a significant advance in the nearly four-month battle to reclaim the city.
President Obama said Friday he is easing sanctions on Sudan, citing progress in the nation’s efforts to confront terrorism as he shifts course on a long-running source of U.S. distress in North Africa.
Turkey’s central bank on Friday announced fresh measures on lira liquidity management to prop up the currency, in a move to raise borrowing costs for banks.
After its censure of Israel, the Security Council needs to send a similar warning to Palestinian maximalists.
Donald Trump has said his company will be run by his sons and won’t strike new foreign deals, but some he has already struck present a possible challenge to his attempts to separate his presidency from his international business.