Sudan’s fragile interim government is sharply divided over normalizing relations with Israel, as it finds itself under intense pressure from the Trump administration to become the third Arab country to do so in short order - after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Washington's push...

Jordan’s King Abdullah II has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz but asked him to stay on in a caretaker capacity until he designates a successor to oversee parliamentary elections in November, according to local media. The monarch dissolved Parliament last...

Iraqi forces arrested 26 suspected Daesh/ISIS militants in a security swoop in the northern Nineveh province on Saturday, according to the defense ministry.  A ministry statement said the militants were detained upon confessions given by Daesh/ISIS terrorists already in Iraqi...

Palestinian authorities will reopen mosques in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after a one-month closure due to the coronavirus outbreak.  In a statement, the Ministry of Waqf and Religious Affairs said mosques in the central province as well as the southern cities of Khan Younis and Rafah...