Iran imposed sanctions on the US ambassador to Iraq Friday, citing "terrorist" acts against its interests, in a tit-for-tat move after Washington blacklisted Tehran's Baghdad envoy. Matthew Tueller and two other US diplomats in Iraq "have effectively engaged in organizing, financing,...

One year after mass protests pushed him to resign, Saad Hariri is back as Lebanon's prime minister designate to draw together a pro-reform cabinet that can save the crisis-hit country. What circumstances brought him back? What do the international community and key players inside the...

Hundreds of mourners including Syria's religious affairs minister attended a funeral in Damascus Friday for the state's top Muslim cleric, who was killed in a bombing near the capital. Sheikh Mohammed Adnan Afiouni, the Sunni Muslim Mufti of Damascus who was close to President Bashar...

Palestinian lawyers Thursday filed a complaint to sue the British government for the 1917 declaration setting out London's support for a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. The lawyers filed a complaint in the occupied West Bank town of Nablus that claimed "the suffering of...