The United States and Iran begin high-stakes talks on Tehran’s nuclear program in Muscat on Saturday, with President Donald Trump threatening military action should they fail to produce a new deal. These will be the highest-level discussions between the foes since an international...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday accused Israel of sowing divisions in Syria in a bid to “dynamite” the “revolution” that toppled Bashar al-Assad. Turkey is a key backer of Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa whose group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led the opposition...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said on Thursday it is ready to enter into talks with the Lebanese government on a national defense strategy.

Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the US Trump administration, 10 senior commanders and Iraqi officials told Reuters. The move to defuse tensions follows repeated warnings issued...