UN nuclear watchdog head Rafael Grossi was to open talks Saturday in Iran on the eve of Tehran's deadline for US sanctions to be lifted, as President Joe Biden called for "careful diplomacy". The deadline, set by Iranian lawmakers, carries the threat of a suspension of some nuclear...

An American journalist, living in northwestern Syria for nearly a decade, has been released, six months after he was captured by an al-Qaida-linked militant group, Syrian opposition media reported. Bilal Abdul Kareem, a native of Mount Vernon, N.Y., has been living in the rebel-held...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone Wednesday after a month of silence that raised concerns in Israel about a frostier relationship between the two allies. Netanyahu's office was first to announce the conversation, releasing a photo of a...

Municipal workers in the semi-autonomous Kurdish city of Irbil mounted a clean-up operation Tuesday after a barrage of rockets landed near an American military base close to the city's international airport. A contractor working with the US-led coalition was killed in Monday's attack....