Two million Muslims gathered at Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat on Saturday amid the summer heat and regional tensions for a vigil to atone for their sins and seek God’s forgiveness as part of the annual haj pilgrimage. Pilgrims clad in white robes signifying a state of purity spent the...

Turkish government plans to relocate 700,000 Syrians in Turkey to the territories it aims to seize from the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in northern Syria, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The government has stepped up measures against refugee population in Turkey, after the ruling...

Libya’s internationally recognized government, which is facing a campaign by eastern troops to take the capital, has accepted a United Nations proposal for a ceasefire during the Eid al-Adha religious holiday, a statement said on Friday. It was not clear whether fighting over the capital...

Fierce clashes resumed on Saturday in Yemen’s southern port of Aden between nominally allied forces that have turned on each other, exposing rifts in a pro-government military coalition and complicating U.N. efforts to end the country’s war. At least eight civilians were killed on...