Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami Tuesday called on authorities to listen to popular demands after a wave of deadly unrest over economic woes. Authorities "should try to identify people's problems and hardships" instead of "humiliating" them, the reformist said in a...

The Israeli military says it has reopened a key border crossing with the Gaza Strip after destroying a tunnel built under it by the Hamas Movement. Tuesday's opening restores Gaza's main point of entry of humanitarian aid. Israel temporarily closed the Kerem Shalom border...

  Lebanese authorities have banned Steven Spielberg's latest film, political thriller "The Post", and Australian drama "Jungle" to comply with a boycott of Israel, an official told AFP Monday. "Screening of the film 'The Post' has been banned," said the official from Lebanon's...

Egypt’s president Monday sought to defuse tensions with  Ethiopia  and Sudan, reassuring them that his country was not meddling in their internal affairs or planning to go to war against them. Egypt has expressed mounting alarm over a soon-to-be-completed upstream dam in...