The European Union and the United States on Wednesday reaffirmed support for Lebanon after the resignation of its prime minister, striking a sharp contrast to Saudi Arabia, which accuses Beirut of declaring war because of the Shi‘ite group Hezbollah. Statements of support from EU...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that missile attacks by Yemen's Houthis targeting Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh were a reaction to what he called Saudi aggression. "How should the Yemeni people react to bombardment of their country. So they are not allowed to use their own...

The husband of a British-Iranian detained by Iran is urging Britain's foreign secretary to publicly correct a statement about his wife, saying the remarks prompted authorities in Tehran to threaten to double her prison sentence. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving a five-year sentence...

Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court ruled Monday that no region or province can secede, as the government seeks to prevent a repeat of September’s Kurdish independence vote. The ruling was a response to a request from the central government in Baghdad to put an end to any...