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...

Saudi minister of Gulf affairs, Thamer al-Sabhan, said on Monday that Lebanon had declared war against Saudi Arabia because of what he described as aggression against the Kingdom by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah. “We will treat the government of Lebanon as a government declaring war...

(The Daily Star)- Israel launched its largest ever aerial training exercise over the weekend in preparation for an “extreme combat scenario,” an Israeli Defense Forces statement announced Monday.