Just as U.S. President Donald Trump reached one hand out to North Korea, he yanked the other back from Iran. The president’s dramatic withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal was the most vivid illustration to date of how his impulses and capricious instincts tend to pull him in paradoxical...

A minister in Israel's security cabinet says it could topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he allows Iranian forces to attack Israel from Syria. Yuval Steinitz warned that if there was an attack, Mr Assad "must know that it is his end and the end of his regime". His...

 Algeria's biggest union urged President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Tuesday to seek a fifth term in office in a further sign that the veteran leader will run in next year's elections in the North African oil producer. "I will deliver the request for a fifth term to Bouteflika's interior...

The Syrian army said on Sunday it had captured a string of villages from U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) east of the Euphrates river near the border with Iraq where Kurdish-led forces are in control, state television said. The U.S.-backed proxy forces spearheaded by the...