A senior army officer and chemical-weapons specialist who defected from Bashar al-Assad’s forces said that Regime's army officials have made a deal with Houthis in Yemen to sell tons of toxic chemical substances for $ 1 billion, according to the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan....

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Egypt on Sunday for the first time since the army toppled the country's first freely elected president on July 3, state news agency MENA said. It said the visit to Egypt, whose alliance with the United States has come under strain, would only...

  Turkey   and   Iran   said on Friday they had common concerns about the increasingly sectarian nature of Syria's civil war, signaling a thaw in a key Middle Eastern relationship strained by stark differences over the conflict. Iran  ...

  Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Thursday he was seeking U.S. help to counter a resurgent al-Qaeda in his country and blamed the revival of the extremist group on power vacuums in the region rather than divisive Iraqi policies. On his first visit to Washington...