An Iranian tanker damaged in the Red Sea two weeks ago has entered Iranian territorial waters, the official IRNA news agency reported Monday, citing information from the National Iranian Tanker Company. The tanker will dock at Kharg Island in two days, the report said. Iranian President...

Lebanon’s cabinet is expected to halve ministers’ wages on Monday among other reforms in a bid to ease an economic crisis and defuse the biggest protests against the ruling elite in decades. Across the country, people blocked roads for a fifth day. Schools, banks and businesses closed....

Turkish police detained three mayors from a main pro-Kurdish party Monday on suspicions of "membership in a terror group" and "disseminating terror propaganda", the official Anadolu news agency reported. The three local mayors from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Kayapinar, Bismil...

Lebanon's teetering government was expected Monday to approve a belated economic rescue plan as the nation prepared for a fifth day of mass protests against the ruling elite. A proposed tax on mobile messaging applications last week sparked a spontaneous, cross-sectarian mobilisation that...