Iraq reopened to commercial flights on Thursday after four months of lockdown to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, which brought the country's fragile economy to its knees. Planes were wheels up on Thursday morning from Baghdad International Airport destined for Lebanon and Turkey,...

Israeli police arrested two prominent Palestinian cultural leaders Wednesday at their home in east Jerusalem on a suspicion of "funding terrorism", their lawyer and police said. Rania Elias, who heads the Yabous Cultural Centre and her husband Suhail Khoury, Director General of the Edward...

Gazans are thronging beaches and crowding markets filled with holiday sweets and clothes as they prepare to celebrate Eid al-Adha largely free of the coronavirus restrictions affecting the Muslim festival elsewhere. The 360 sq. km. coastal strip has had little access to the outside world...

Greece's navy has deployed ships in the Aegean in "heightened readiness" over Turkish energy exploration activities, a navy source said Wednesday. The move came after the Greek foreign ministry formally protested to Ankara Tuesday following the announcement that a Turkish drilling ship...