Israel allowed Gaza fuel deliveries to resume and expanded its fishing zone Friday in exchange for calm in the enclave, Israeli and Palestinian officials and a U.N. source said. Israel began blocking deliveries of fuel to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after new incendiary balloons were launched...

Iraq denounced an "attack" by protesters on the embassy of Bahrain Friday that prompted Manama to recall its ambassador from Baghdad. On Thursday around 200 protesters upset by Manama's hosting of a U.S.-led Middle East peace conference torched Israeli flags outside the Bahrain embassy in...

The United Arab Emirates, a key member of the Arab coalition fighting in Yemen, is scaling back its military presence there as worsening U.S.-Iran tensions threaten security closer to home, four western diplomatic sources said. The UAE has pulled some troops from the southern port of Aden...

Authorities on Friday reassured anxious Tunisians there is no power vacuum in the North African state, shaken by President Beji Caid Essebsi's hospitalisation on the same day as twin suicide attacks in the capital. Essebsi, 92, was taken to hospital for a "serious illness" on Thursday, even...