Jordan's King Abdullah II began a rare visit to the occupied West Bank to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Monday, amid shared tensions with Israel over a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site. In his first visit to Abbas's headquarters in Ramallah in five years, Abdullah was welcomed on...

 Iran has mocked the U.S. push for inspections of the country's military sites, calling it a "ridiculous dream that will never come true." This comes after U.S. officials said last month that the Trump administration is pushing for inspections of suspicious Iranian military sites in a...

Armed with extraordinary new U.N. sanctions, nations raced Monday to ensure that North Korea's biggest trading partners actually carry them out, an elusive task that has undercut past attempts to strong-arm Pyongyang into abandoning its nuclear weapons. North Korea reacted angrily, vowing to...

An ORB opinion poll published on Monday showed that 61 percent of British voters disapprove of Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of the Brexit negotiations. Britain has less than two years to negotiate the terms of the divorce and the outlines of the future relationship before it is due...