Nearly 110,000 displaced Syrians have returned to their homes in Idlib province, northwestern Syria, since Turkey and Russia agreed on a cease-fire in the region on March 5. Around one million Syrians were displaced from Idlib province when the Syrian regime and its allies launched an...

Israel was bracing for more political turmoil Monday as talks between the country's rival political leaders faltered ahead of a midnight deadline to form a coalition government. Israel is in the throes of a political crisis that has left the country with a caretaker government and paralyzed...

Bahrain said Monday that state-owned Gulf Air has begun flying to Iran to repatriate Bahrainis stranded there due to the coronavirus crisis, the first direct flights between the two countries in four years. More than a thousand Bahrainis, most of them pilgrims visiting Shi'ite Muslim...

Gaza's Hamas-run government on Monday temporarily re-opened the border crossing with Egypt, shut due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, to allow hundreds of Palestinians to return. One-way traffic into the coastal enclave through the Rafah crossing would be allowed for the coming four days,...