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The rulers of the United Arab Emirates had been using Israeli spyware for more than a year, secretly turning the smartphones of dissidents at home or rivals abroad into surveillance [...]

Saudi Arabia, which has one of the highest execution rates in the world, is taking the rare step of seeking the death penalty for a 29-year-old female activist accused of [...]

President Trump boasts that he has reversed American policies across the Middle East. Where his predecessor hoped to win hearts and minds, Mr. Trump champions the axiom that brute force [...]

LONDON -- A closely watched British parliamentary committee examining Russia's exploitation of social media to try to influence elections has called for sweeping new regulations on tech companies, and has [...]

WASHINGTON -- Early one morning in October, Rick Gates, a Washington lobbyist who had been a top official in the Trump campaign, emailed family and friends warning them that he [...]

Byline: DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK CAMBRIDGE, England -- Some residents of Cambridge are so fond of their local cattle that only Latin can do justice to their feelings. 'It gives a [...]

CAMBRIDGE, England -- Some residents of Cambridge are so fond of their local cattle that only Latin can do justice to their feelings. ''It gives a sense of rus in [...]

LONDON -- The defection of an Emirati prince to Qatar has provided a rare glimpse into tensions among the rulers of the United Arab Emirates and added an awkward complication [...]

Byline: DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MATTHEW ROSENBERG LONDON -- Arron Banks, a British financier who bankrolled the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, has long bragged about his [...]

EDITORS' NOTE APPENDEDLONDON -- Arron Banks, a British financier who bankrolled the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, has long bragged about his ''boozy six-hour lunch'' with the [...]

Byline: DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK The billionaire financier Tom Barrack was caught in a bind. In April 2016, his close friend Donald J. Trump was about to clinch the Republican presidential [...]

The billionaire financier Tom Barrack was caught in a bind. In April 2016, his close friend Donald J. Trump was about to clinch the Republican presidential nomination. But Mr. Trump's [...]

The two men had known each other for years around Capitol Hill. Both were hawkish supporters of Israel and active in the Republican Party. But now they were on opposite [...]

LONDON -- Saudi Arabia is escalating its crackdown on activists who had pressed for the right of women to drive, bringing the number arrested to at least 11 and publicly [...]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Paul Tweed made his name suing news organizations like CNN, Forbes and The National Enquirer on behalf of Hollywood movie stars, winning high-profile cases for celebrities [...]

A night after the dedication of the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel convened American evangelicals to plan their next steps. In a conference [...]

WASHINGTON -- Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist [...]

Byline: DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, ELIZABETH DIAS and DAVID M. HALBFINGER A night after the dedication of the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel convened [...]

WASHINGTON -- For President Trump and two of the allies he values most -- Israel and Saudi Arabia -- the problem of the Iranian nuclear accord was not, primarily, about [...]

Byline: DAVID E. SANGER and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Correction Appended WASHINGTON -- For President Trump and two of the allies he values most -- Israel and Saudi Arabia -- the [...]

White House aides were worried enough about a visit last year by Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia, under investigation by American prosecutors who say he embezzled $3.5 billion from [...]

LONDON -- The United States and Britain on Monday issued a first-of-its-kind joint warning about Russian cyberattacks against government and private organizations as well as individual homes and offices in [...]

WASHINGTON -- A witness who is cooperating in the special counsel investigation, George Nader, has connections to both the Persian Gulf states and Russia and may have information that links [...]

LONDON -- Lawyers for Elliott Broidy, a Republican fund-raiser close to President Trump, on Monday filed a lawsuit accusing the government of Qatar of hacking into his emails and conspiring [...]

WASHINGTON -- For Elliott Broidy, Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign represented an unparalleled political and business opportunity. An investor and defense contractor, Mr. Broidy became a top fund-raiser for Mr. [...]

Byline: KENNETH P. VOGEL and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK WASHINGTON -- For Elliott Broidy, Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign represented an unparalleled political and business opportunity. An investor and defense contractor, [...]

LONDON -- Two senior advisers to Prime Minister Theresa May might have conspired to bypass electoral spending laws when they were leading a campaign for Britain to leave the European [...]

Byline: DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK LONDON -- Two senior advisers to Prime Minister Theresa May might have conspired to bypass electoral spending laws when they were leading a campaign for Britain [...]

A cooperating witness in the special counsel investigation worked for more than a year to turn a top Trump fund-raiser into an instrument of influence at the White House for [...]

Seated in an animated command and control room in Riyadh, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia directs an invasion of Iran. In scene after he scene, he orders a succession [...]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Businessmen once considered giants of the Saudi economy now wear ankle bracelets that track their movements. Princes who led military forces and appeared in glossy magazines [...]

Byline: BEN HUBBARD, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, KATE KELLY and MARK MAZZETTI Correction Appended RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Businessmen once considered giants of the Saudi economy now wear ankle bracelets that [...]

WASHINGTON -- An adviser to the United Arab Emirates with ties to current and former aides to President Trump is cooperating with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and [...]

LONDON -- A cyberwar in the Persian Gulf reverberated in the United States this week as a top Republican fund-raiser accused agents for Qatar of hacking into his email to [...]

WASHINGTON -- George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades. He was a back-channel negotiator with Syria during the Clinton administration, reinvented [...]

LONDON -- A court in Bahrain sentenced a prominent democracy advocate on Wednesday to five years in prison for tweets about abuses in prisons and the Saudi-led war in Yemen, [...]

The jihadists in Egypt's Northern Sinai had killed hundreds of soldiers and police officers, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, briefly seized a major town and begun setting up armed [...]

Byline: DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK The jihadists in Egypt's Northern Sinai had killed hundreds of soldiers and police officers, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, briefly seized a major town and [...]

TEHRAN -- At 25 percent, the interest rate paid on a savings account at the Caspian Finance and Credit Institution in Tehran was a better return than Mehrdad Asgari could [...]

Byline: THOMAS ERDBRINK, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and NILO TABRIZY TEHRAN -- At 25 percent, the interest rate paid on a savings account at the Caspian Finance and Credit Institution in [...]

As President Trump moved last month to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, an Egyptian intelligence officer quietly placed phone calls to the hosts of several influential talk shows [...]

Byline: DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK As President Trump moved last month to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, an Egyptian intelligence officer quietly placed phone calls to the hosts of [...]

Usman Raja, a burly 40-year-old and one-time pioneer of bare-knuckled mixed martial arts fighting, was back for a few rounds of sparring at his home gym in a town south [...]

Byline: DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Usman Raja, a burly 40-year-old and onetime pioneer of bare-knuckled mixed martial arts fighting, was back for a few rounds of sparring at his home gym [...]

LONDON -- An independent review prompted by one of Britain's deadliest fires in modern times condemned British construction regulations on Monday as ''not fit for purpose,'' saying they allowed dangerous [...]

LONDON -- An academic study set to be released on Tuesday casts doubt on speculation that Russia might have exploited social media to try to influence Britain's 2016 referendum to [...]

LONDON -- Facebook, confounding expectations, said on Wednesday that the company had found no evidence of a significant Russian effort to interfere in the British referendum last year on leaving [...]

LONDON -- In the latest in a series of gestures toward modernization that would once have seemed improbable, Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that it would allow commercial movie theaters [...]

LONDON -- The Saudi Embassy in Washington on Friday offered a new explanation for the record-breaking $450.3 million purchase last month of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Disputing reports [...]