At least 18 people, mainly schoolchildren and teachers, were killed Thursday in a flash flood near Jordan's Dead Sea that happened while they were on an outing, rescuers and hospital workers said. Thirty-four people were rescued in a major operation involving police helicopters and...

Iraq will prioritize its own interests and independence when it comes to helping the United States enforce sanctions against Iran, new Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said Thursday. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from a 2015 international nuclear accord...

The eldest son of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Salah, and his family have left the Gulf kingdom after the government lifted a travel ban, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. "Salah and his family are on a plane to [Washington] DC now," Sarah Leah Whitson, the rights watchdog's...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Jewish state's president and a former minister Wednesday night of conspiring to have him toppled, triggering charges of "paranoia" ahead of elections. "I know that a former Likud minister has been holding discussions with the...