A car bomb killed a dozen people and injured 30 on Saturday in a market of a Syrian border town that Turkish-backed forces seized last month, prompting Ankara to blame the Kurdish YPG militia it had targeted in its incursion. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said pro-Turkey fighters...

Security forces killed a protester and wounded 91 others in Baghdad Saturday, security and medical sources said, as thousands of Iraqis continued to gather in mass anti-government protests. More than 250 people were killed in October, as security forces fired tear gas canisters and rubber...

Iran said Saturday it has sent Iraq and Arab states of the Gulf the text of its security and cooperation project first unveiled by President Hassan Rouhani at the UN in September. Rouhani "sent the full text [of the initiative] to the heads" of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Iraq and...

Five candidates will run in Algeria's presidential election next month, including two former prime ministers, the head of the election authority said on Saturday, amid mass protests rejecting the vote.  The authorities have repeatedly said the Dec. 12 vote would be the only way to get...