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In his first public comments since President Trump aborted an imminent attack on Iran last week, its top leader on Wednesday ruled out any negotiations with Washington and said that [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump warned on Tuesday that any attack Iran might carry out ''on anything American'' would result in the ''obliteration'' of parts of Iran, responding angrily to comments [...]

Iranian officials have railed for two months against the Trump administration's sanctions blocking their oil sales as ''economic warfare.'' But the response to the latest American penalties imposed on Monday, [...]

Seated on the floor of a villa in northeast Tehran around a tablecloth spread with platters of saffron chicken and rice with barberries, about 30 officials of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary [...]

President Trump's decisions to order and then suddenly abort a military strike against Iran set off a debate across the region on Friday over whether his stop at the brink [...]

Key takeaways from the United Nations report on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi officials carried out an extensive cover-up of Mr. Khashoggi's killing in a Saudi consulate in October, [...]

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, collapsed and died while on trial in a Cairo courtroom on Monday, six years after the military ousted him in [...]

WASHINGTON -- As Iran and the United States face off in the Gulf of Oman, the risk may not be just at sea, but in Tehran and Washington, where both [...]

Mysterious explosions that crippled two commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday have set off a spike in oil prices, threats from President Trump and pleas for calm [...]

LONDON -- Explosions crippled two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday in what the United States called ''unprovoked attacks'' by Iran, raising alarms about immediate security and [...]

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, the 29-year-old commander of the almost negligible air force of the United Arab Emirates, had come to Washington shopping for [...]

Byline: David D. Kirkpatrick LONDON - In Kuwait, the Muslim Brotherhood is vocally pro-American. In Iraq, the Brotherhood's political party has steadfastly supported the American-backed political process and still forms [...]

LONDON -- In Kuwait, the Muslim Brotherhood is vocally pro-American. In Iraq, the Brotherhood's political party has steadfastly supported the American-backed political process and still forms part of the governing [...]

Byline: David D. Kirkpatrick President Trump wants to designate the Muslim Brotherhood, an international Islamist movement, as a terrorist organization. The designation would impose sanctions on the group and those [...]

Byline: Colin Moynihan and David D. Kirkpatrick Is the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi drawing nearer? The director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation has told a European news outlet [...]

Is the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi drawing nearer? The director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation has told a European news outlet that construction on a long-planned and much-delayed [...]

President Trump on Friday abruptly reversed American policy toward Libya, issuing a statement publicly endorsing an aspiring strongman in his battle to depose the United Nations-backed government. The would-be strongman, [...]

The United Nations-backed government of Libya sought on Saturday to reassure its Western supporters by distancing itself from terrorists and extremists. Some fighters with extremist ties or who have been [...]

A week after an aspiring strongman launched a surprise attack on the Libyan capital, an assortment of criminal gangs and extremists are rushing into the fight against him, raising new [...]

Byline: David D. Kirkpatrick In Sudan, tens of thousands of demonstrators are sitting in to demand the ouster of their longtime ruler. In Algeria, millions of protesters forced out their [...]

A battle for control of the Libyan capital remained deadlocked for a fifth day on Tuesday, as the city's last civilian airport resumed flights after an airstrike and the United [...]

In Sudan, tens of thousands of demonstrators are sitting in to demand the ouster of their longtime ruler. In Algeria, millions of protesters forced out their own octogenarian leader last [...]

The United States military evacuated its small contingent of troops from the Libyan capital on Sunday as rival militias raced to stop the forces of an aspiring strongman, Gen. Khalifa [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Brushing back pressure from Washington, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia escalated his crackdown on even the mildest forms of dissent with the arrests this [...]

Gen. Khalifa Hifter, the Libyan militia leader now threatening to capture the capital, thought he had a deal. His troops had reached an agreement with local militia leaders on Thursday [...]

A military leader who has vowed for years that he would seize control of Libya ordered his troops on Thursday to march on the capital, Tripoli. By nightfall, they had [...]

The children of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi have received tens of thousands of dollars and millions in real estate from the rulers of the kingdom as compensation for the [...]

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- The Louvre Abu Dhabi might seem to have all you could ask for in a world-class museum. Its acclaimed design shades its galleries under [...]

In late October 2017, Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and Middle East adviser, dropped into Saudi Arabia for an unannounced visit to the desert retreat of Crown Prince Mohammed bin [...]

He announced his mass killing over social media and filmed it live on the internet. He shared a 74-page online manifesto peppered with sarcastic jokes about popular culture, repeating well-known [...]

LONDON -- Ahmed Fitaihi had waited more than a year for Saudi Arabia to release his father, a Harvard-trained doctor and a dual Saudi and American citizen who had been [...]

A dual citizen of Saudi Arabia and the United States had been imprisoned in the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh for about a week when he heard a knock on his [...]

MARIB, Yemen -- A display on one side of the doorway holds children's drawings of violence and gore: red scribbles of blood on pencil sketches of bombs, bullets and bodies; [...]

NEHIM, Yemen -- Desperate to break through enemy lines, the Saudi-backed forces fighting in Yemen are sending untrained soldiers to clear minefields, sometimes using only their bayonets.''I removed two and [...]

WASHINGTON -- In the world of big-dollar political donors, Imaad Zuberi is notable less for the scale of his giving than for its baldly transactional nature. A supporter of President [...]

HASAKA, Syria -- More than six years after he was abducted in Syria by jihadists, John Cantlie, a British journalist, is believed to be still alive, a British government official [...]

Saudi Arabia said on Thursday that it had concluded a crackdown on high-level corruption that began 15 months ago with the detention of hundreds of prominent businessmen and former officials [...]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- An expert from the United Nations human rights office will look into the death of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist killed in [...]

19 Tatra Mountains, SlovakiaOff-the-grid skiing, rock climbing and moreWhile most visitors focus on Slovakia's capital, Bratislava, the soaring Tatra Mountains have emerged as an under-the-radar destination for skiing and outdoors [...]

Egypt tried to block the broadcast of an interview by CBS News with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi about his covert military cooperation with Israel, the network said Friday. The network [...]

Saudi Arabia denied Wednesday that it had issued American-made weapons to Sudanese soldiers in Yemen, disputing statements made by five of the soldiers and reported last week in The New [...]

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family's cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left [...]

Byline: DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, BEN HUBBARD, MARK LANDLER and MARK MAZZETTI Correction Appended Senior American officials were worried. Since the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner, the president's [...]

Senior American officials were worried. Since the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and Middle East adviser, had been having private, informal conversations with Prince [...]

LONDON -- A Saudi dissident close to the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi has filed a lawsuit charging that an Israeli software company helped the royal court take over his smartphone [...]

BUENOS AIRES -- Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia exchanged laughs and clasped hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in an incongruous moment of apparent celebration [...]