Populist Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to announce early parliamentary elections overseen by the United Nations and without the participation of existing political parties Monday. Sadr's bloc, which came first in a 2018 election and helped...

Students and schoolchildren hit the streets of Baghdad and southern Iraq Monday to join escalating calls for the government to quit, defying the education minister, legal threats and even their parents. "No school, no classes, until the regime collapses!" protestors shouted in...

A French academic held in Iran for four months faces charges of collusion after being arrested alongside a Franco-Iranian colleague accused of espionage, their lawyer said in a report Monday. Roland Marchal, a researcher at Sciences Po in Paris, was arrested in June together with Fariba...

Lebanese demonstrators set up barricades and parked cars across key roads Monday to protest corruption and press their demands for a radical overhaul of their country's sectarian political system. Defying pleas from Lebanon's top leaders, protesters sought to keep the country on lockdown by...