Fire sale: An Iran plant makes the US flags protesters burn
KHOMEIN, Iran — Near the hometown of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, workers at a small Iranian factory diligently add all 50 stars and 13 red-a...
Israel accused of torturing Palestinians after fatal bombing
RAMALLAH, West Bank — One of the men was hospitalized with kidney failure and 11 broken ribs. Another was nearly unrecognizable to his wife when he wa...
Iraqi officials: US will grant vital Iran sanctions waiver
BAGHDAD — The United States has signaled to Iraq its willingness to extend sanctions waivers enabling the country to continue importing vital Iranian ...
Syrian advance sends hundreds of thousands fleeing in Idlib
BEIRUT — Turkey on Friday sent more troops and tanks to bolster its military presence in northwestern Syria, where President Bashar Assad's forces hav...
Architect of US peace plan blames Palestinians for violence
UNITED NATIONS — The chief architect of the U.S. blueprint to resolve the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday blamed Pa...
Trump says U.S. operation killed al-Qaida leader in Yemen
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. at his direction has conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qass...
Syrian army enters key town as Turkey beefs up its troops
BEIRUT — Syrian government troops entered a strategic town in the country's last rebel stronghold Thursday after fierce clashes with opposition fighte...
A rapid descent leads to screams on severed Turkish plane
ISTANBUL — As their flight abruptly descended into Istanbul and hit the ground with a rumble, a Turkish couple tensed up. They soon relaxed when they ...
Death toll in Turkey avalanche disaster rises to 41
ISTANBUL — The death toll from a pair of avalanches in eastern Turkey climbed to 41 Thursday, Turkey's disaster and emergency agency said as search te...
Israeli troops hurt, 3 Palestinians killed in new violence
JERUSALEM — A spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence on Thursday left at least three Palestinians killed and a dozen Israeli troops wounded in a rash o...
Not a break, but fissures in US-Iraqi military alliance
BAGHDAD — A new watchtower rose over an American military base in northern Iraq, and cranes lifted hefty slabs of concrete to reinforce the barricades...
Amnesty finds Saudi anti-terror court a weapon of repression
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia has used a secretive court established to try terrorism cases as "a weapon of repression" to imprison peace...
Airliner skids, breaks open in Istanbul; 3 dead, 179 injured
ISTANBUL — A Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, crashed into a ditch and broke apart while landing in bad weather in Istanbul Wednesday, killing t...
Iraqi officials: At least 8 shot dead in southern Iraq
BAGHDAD — At least eight anti-government protesters were shot dead and 52 were wounded in clashes with followers of a radical Shiite cleric in souther...
Iraqi officials say Baghdad wants to minimize reliance on US
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government has told its military not to seek assistance from the U.S.-led coalition in operations against the Islamic State group,...
Avalanche in Turkey wipes out rescue team; 38 dead overall
ANKARA, Turkey — An avalanche slammed into a mountain road in eastern Turkey on Wednesday, wiping out a huge team of rescue workers sent to find peopl...
Dubai airport remains world’s No. 1 for international travel
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai International Airport said on Wednesday that it maintained its title as the world's busiest for international trav...
Unknowns of the new virus make global quarantines a struggle
SEOUL, South Korea — Health authorities are scrambling to halt the spread of a new virus that has killed hundreds in China. But with important details...
Abu Dhabi’s long-troubled Etihad sells 38 planes for $1B
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Abu Dhabi's long-troubled Etihad Airways said Tuesday it would sell 38 aircraft to an investment firm and a leasing comp...
German appeals court denies bid to remove anti-Semitic relic
BERLIN — A German appeals court on Tuesday rejected a Jewish man's bid to force the removal of a 700-year-old anti-Semitic statue from a church where ...
Meeting between Sudan leader, Netanyahu debated in Sudan
CAIRO — A surprise meeting between Sudan's leader and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stirred controversy in Sudan on Tuesday, with the gove...
US general slips into Iraq for talks to salvage relations
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — The top U.S. commander for the Middle East slipped quietly into Iraq Tuesday, as the Trump administration works to s...
Bloodied but determined, Lebanese protesters take stock
BEIRUT — At a Beirut hospital ward, five Lebanese protesters with bandaged eyes and faces huddled in a circle, their arms wrapped around each other, a...
Iran may block UN inspectors if it faces a ‘new situation’
ML--Iran-Nuclear — Iran’s president said Monday that Tehran might reconsider providing U.N. inspectors with access to Iran's nuclear facilities if the...
8 Turkish personnel, 13 Syrian troops killed in north Syria
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey hit targets in northern Syria, responding to shelling by Syrian government forces that killed at least eight Turkish soldiers ...
Muslim nations reject Trump’s Mideast plan in Saudi meeting
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Days after Gulf Arab states expressed their support for President Donald Trump's efforts at resolving the Israeli-Palest...
Ukraine: Recordings show Iran knew jetliner hit by a missile
KYIV, Ukraine — A leaked recording of an exchange between an Iranian air-traffic controller and an Iranian pilot purports to show that authorities imm...
After NPR dust-up, Pompeo defends press freedom abroad
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — For the past four days, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been calling for authoritarian governments in eastern Europe an...
China’s Israel envoy compares virus travel bans to Holocaust
JERUSALEM — China's acting ambassador to Israel apologized on Sunday after comparing the closure of several national borders to Chinese citizens amid ...
Iraqi protesters reject PM-designate picked by ruling elites
BAGHDAD — Anti-government demonstrators on Sunday rejected Iraq’s new prime minister-designate following his nomination by rival government factions, ...