In Iraq’s holiest city, a pontiff will meet a revered ayatollah and make history with a message of coexistence in a place plagued by bitter divisions. One is the chief pastor of the world-wide Catholic Church, the other a pre-eminent figure in Shiite Islam whose opinion holds powerful sway...

Iraq received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines in the early hours of Tuesday morning. An Iraqi Air Force plane C-130 landed in Baghdad with 50,000 Sinopharm shots from China. Iraq is facing a second wave of the virus, with new daily case totals of more than 3,000 this week....

Israel’s attorney general has warned Benjamin Netanyahu that he cannot single-handedly share the country's surplus vaccines with far-flung allies in Africa, Europe and Latin America, and that such an important decision cannot be made by the prime minister alone. In an official letter,...

Iran rejected on Monday an accusation made by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it was behind an attack on an Israeli-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman last week. In a press briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Netanyahu was “suffering from an...