Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday said he is withdrawing his bid for parliamentary immunity from prosecution on corruption charges. Israel's longest-serving prime minister issued a Facebook statement saying the immunity proceedings in parliament would have been a...

 Iran's foreign minister Monday said Britain, France and Germany had shown "racism" by activating a dispute mechanism in the 2015 nuclear deal. In a televised speech in Tehran, Mohammad Javad Zarif slammed the "illusion" that "only the blue-eyed" could benefit from international law....

Lebanon's parliament on Monday passed the 2020 budget, state media said, as the debt-saddled country struggles to redress a plummeting economy and address anti-establishment protests. Dozens of protesters tried to prevent lawmakers from attending the session and some threw stones at police...

Projected revenues in Lebanon’s 2020 budget may be unrealistic because of a contraction in the country’s economy, the chairman of the parliamentary budget committee said on Monday, as protesters hurled rocks at police near to where the draft law was under debate. Lebanon is in the...