Saudi Arabia is temporarily halting all oil shipments going through an important Red Sea waterway, accusing Iran-allied rebels of attacking two crude tankers on Wednesday.
The Trump administration released $195 million in military aid to Egypt, allowing Cairo to access funds Washington withheld last year over concerns about the country’s human-rights record and relationship with North Korea.
Iranian leaders are pushing to contain a deepening economic crisis that is slashing the buying power of Iranians and pressuring Tehran’s ruling elite even before the bite of looming U.S. sanctions.
A series of Islamic State attacks in southwest Syria killed and injured scores, a show of deadly force around an area where the government is pressing an offensive against an affiliate of the extremist group.
Israel shot down a Syrian jet fighter that entered its airspace, its military said, potentially raising tensions in a fraught border region where President Bashar al-Assad’s Russian-backed forces are battling to retake a pocket of southwest Syria.
Israel partially reopened Gaza’s Kerem Shalom crossing, loosening severe restrictions put in place to stop the launch of flaming balloons and kites.
One person was killed after three gunmen broke into a local government building in Iraq’s northern city of Erbil, in a rare attack inside the semiautonomous Kurdish region that officials blamed on “terrorists.”
Iranian officials promised retaliation against any hostile U.S. actions after President Donald Trump issued a threatening tweet at the country’s president, escalating a war of words fought in recent weeks.
Israel’s military said late Sunday it fired toward Palestinians in Gaza launching flaming balloons into Israeli territory, an incident that posed a challenge to a weekend cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
Hundreds of Syrian emergency rescuers and their families were evacuated from the country’s southwest with Israel’s help.
Saudi Arabia is ramping up efforts to lure international companies and revive Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plans for an economic makeover, after foreign investment fell to a 14-year-low in 2017.
When Iraq’s power supply faltered this month, it ignited an angry question: Why can’t a top oil producer keep the power on?
Greece’s leftist Syriza party ditches its antagonism toward Israel and cooperates with Netanyahu’s government as Ankara asserts power in region.
Hamas said it has agreed to a cease fire with Israel in the Gaza Strip, a day after an Israeli soldier and three Hamas members were killed in violent clashes on the border.
Israel’s military said it launched a wide-scale attack against Hamas after one of its soldiers was killed by fire from the Gaza Strip, an escalation that raises concerns of a wider conflict.
The Chinese president wrapped up three-day meeting in U.A.E with flurry of business agreements, bolstering economic ties with a key ally of Saudi Arabia, just as Beijing is emerging as a critical partner for an increasingly isolated Iran.
Israel’s parliament passed a law defining the country as a Jewish state, a step supporters say enshrines a basic national principle but that opponents said discriminates against Arab citizens.
The U.S. has returned about two dozen suspected Islamic State fighters detained in Syria to their home countries as it grapples with the fate of hundreds more, leaving the door open to sending some to the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.S. defense officials said.
New U.S. sanctions are sending a shock through Iranian businesses even before they take effect, pressuring the country’s leaders to prevent a return to economic isolation.
Authoritarian governments in the Middle East are increasingly adopting a version of China’s approach to online censorship, cutting citizens off from swaths of the internet, often with the aid of Western technology.
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to work together on solving the Syrian crisis—with both focusing on the need to guarantee Israel’s security.
Parliament granted the government sweeping powers to regulate media, a move critics say will boost the Sisi regime’s ability to crack down on free speech and dissent.
Israel is ramping up attacks against Iranian supply lines in Syria to block the flow of weapons to Hezbollah and other Tehran-backed militias, as it seeks to drive its foe away from its borders.
Iraqi authorities deployed troops across the country’s south and blocked access to the internet as protests over poor government services grew violent, with demonstrators breaking into oil facilities, burning political-party offices and shutting Najaf Airport.
Israeli agents covertly extracted documents detailing Iran’s nuclear program in a dramatic 6½-hour operation in Tehran in January, removing a trove that included partial designs for a nuclear warhead, Israeli officials said.