Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday intensified efforts to rally Middle Eastern countries against U.S. recognition of occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital, setting up talks with Arab leaders beginning in Cairo. Abbas will meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt, which...

President Vladimir Putin visited a Russian military air base in Syria on Monday and announced a partial pullout of Russian forces from the war-torn country. Putin made a stopover at the Hmeimim air base in Syria's coastal province of Latakia while en route to Egypt. The base, in...

 Israel's leader faces renewed pressure from Europe on Monday to reboot the Middle East's moribund peace process following widespread criticism of the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish state's capital. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in Brussels for an...

The Syrian regime army and Iranian-backed militias backed by Russian air power stepped up a military campaign against rebels in eastern Hama province in a push toward the rebel stronghold of Idlib province in northwestern Syria, rebels and witnesses said. They said dozens of aerial...