A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces during protests along the border with Gaza on Friday, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said, following a three-month spike in violence. Mohammed Abu Zaida, 18, died after being shot in the neck, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. Two...

Iraq sent an armored army division and a police strike force into the southern oil city of Basra to disarm residents amid intensified feuding between rival Shi'ite Muslim tribes, a local official and three security sources said on Friday. The majority of crude exports from...

Lebanese security forces said on Thursday they had arrested a senior member of an al Qaeda-linked militant group that has carried out attacks in the country. A security source described Bilal Mezher as an "important catch", close to Sirajeddine Zureiqat, head of the Abdullah...

Iran has removed the sensitive core of its Arak nuclear reactor and U.N. inspectors will visit the site on Thursday to verify the move crucial to the implementation of Tehran's atomic agreement with major powers, state television said on Thursday. Removal of the core from the Arak...