The death toll from anti-government protests in Iraq has risen to 556, Iraq's Independent High Commission for Human Rights said Sunday. A statement from the press office of Ali al-Bayati, a representative of the commission, said those who doubt the figure should reveal their evidence....

US presidential advisor Jared Kushner said on Sunday that if Palestinians are unable to meet the conditions of the new Middle East peace plan he crafted, Israel should not take "the risk to recognize them as a state." The plan laid out by Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, and...

A policy statement by Lebanon's new government calls for interest rate cuts and bank recapitalization in a rescue plan that includes "painful steps" to address a financial crisis, according to a draft seen Sunday by Reuters. The policy statement, on which the new government will seek a...

Populist Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urged his followers Sunday to help security forces clear roads blocked during months of sit-in protests, calling for "day-to-day life" to resume following the appointment of a new prime minister. Sadr, who has alternately sided with the anti-government...