The battle for an ancient desert city in war-torn Yemen has become a key to understanding wider tensions now inflaming the Middle East and the challenges facing any efforts by President Joe Biden’s administration to shift U.S. troops out of the region. Fighting has been raging in the...

In December 2010, protests erupted in Tunisia, triggering similar demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa, including in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria. Ten years since the start of the Arab Spring, photographers who captured the years of uprising reflect on what they saw and what...

A senior official at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said there is a link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and extremely rare cases of blood clots reported in people who had recently had the jab. In an interview with Italy’s Il Messaggero newspaper, Marco Cavaleri, head of...

Iran has called for Saudi Arabia to engage in direct talks to solve ongoing issues between the two countries without the involvement of a third party, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said yesterday. According to Iran's FarsNews Agency, Khatibzadeh said: "I regret that Riyadh...