Iran has instructed allies across the Middle East to be on high alert and avoid provoking tensions with the U.S. that could give an outgoing Trump administration cause to launch attacks in the U.S. president's final weeks in office, Iraqi officials have said. The request - delivered by a...

Children of some 33,000 Palestinians living behind barbed wires in Hebron, the Palestinian city in the southern West Bank, 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of Jerusalem are subjected to daily harassment while passing through Israeli military checkpoints. On eve of World Children Day, speaking...

Lebanon’s authorities signed a contract this month with a German company to clear dangerous material stored for more than a decade at Beirut port, the site of a seismic blast in August that killed about 200 people and wrecked swathes of the capital. Combi Lift, which signed the contract...

Israel has accused Lebanon of changing its position in talks on their disputed maritime border and warned it could lead to a "dead end" that would be damaging for the whole region. The two countries, which remain technically at war, opened negotiations on the border dispute under US and UN...