A U.S. airstrike targeting facilities used by Iran-backed militias in Syria appears to be a message to Tehran delivered by a new American administration still figuring out its approach to the Middle East. The strike was seemingly a response to stepped-up rocket attacks by such militias...

Israel's emergency rescues service, Magen David Adom, parked a van outside Jerusalem's Old City on Friday as part of a drive to vaccinate residents of east Jerusalem, the Palestinian-dominated part of the city. People lined up outside the van to get the coveted vaccine on a busy Friday,...

The Jordanian government this week reinstated a nationwide Friday lockdown and extended the daily night curfew by two hours as a new measures to stem the spread of coronavirus. The Friday restrictions, originally implemented in October, have been brought back just weeks after being...

In November 2016, the month Donald Trump was elected US president, a Saudi delegation of top aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited New York, where they met members of the Trump transition team. Upon their return home, the delegation delivered a slide presentation of their...