Celebratory tracer fire from a wedding lights up the night sky over Marib, a city that is heavily armed even by the standards of Yemen, where the ready availability of weapons helped start civil war and is now preventing anyone coming out on top. Yemenis often say there are...

 Iran Sunday notified the International Atomic Energy Agency that it would apply a protocol granting inspectors greater access to its nuclear sites, a further step in the implementation of a historic deal struck with world powers, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said. The announcement came as...

Israel Sunday rejected a proposal to send international observers to a flash-point holy site in a bid to calm unrest after five more stabbing incidents defied a security crackdown. Diplomatic moves to halt the more than two weeks of unrelenting violence gained steam meanwhile, with U.S....

Egypt kicked off a long-awaited parliamentary election on Sunday, the final step in a process that was meant to put the country back on a democratic course but which critics say has been undermined by state repression. Egypt has been without a parliament since June 2012 when a...