Israeli warplanes and artillery struck targets in Syria following rare rocket fire from the northeastern neighbor, as Jewish-Muslim tensions reached a peak Sunday at a volatile Jerusalem shrine with simultaneous religious rituals. Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at the city's...

Staffers of the UN refugee agency UNRWA staged a general strike in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to protest the agency’s lack of response to demands for recruitment of new employees. “All UNRWA facilities went on a general strike,” Azmi Radwan, head of the labor sector in the UNRWA’s Arab...

CIA Director Bill Burns paid an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia, expressing frustration about Riyadh’s recent rapprochement with Iran, according to a report. Burns told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that the US felt "blindsided" by Riyadh’s rapprochement with Iran and Syria --...

The U.S. Navy has deployed a guided-missile submarine capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk missiles to the Middle East, a spokesman said Saturday, in what appeared to be a show of force toward Iran following recent tensions. The Navy rarely acknowledges the location or deployment of...