Two rockets reportedly landed in Iraq’s heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad early Thursday, where the U.S. embassy is located. Warning sirens could be heard blaring near the embassy compound, according to security sources. No further details were available.

Iran spurned the U.S. president’s call for a new nuclear pact and its commanders threatened more attacks as the Middle East remained on edge following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Tehran’s retaliatory missile strikes. Concern the war-scarred region was primed for a wider...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian intelligence agent has kidnapped and tortured to death three former rebels in revenge for his brother death last week in southern Daraa province, activists told Zaman al Wasl on Thursday.  Despite Russia-brokered reconciliation deals in the cradle...

A senior Iranian commander said Iran's missile attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq did not aim to kill American soldiers but sought to damage Washington's "military machine" and were the start of a series of attacks across the region, state television reported. Amirali Hajizadeh, the head of...