Israeli settlers attack Palestinian village after shooting
JERUSALEM — Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank overnight, setting brush fires and hurling stones, Palestinian officials and an...
US officials in Mideast to reassure jittery allies over Iran
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Top Biden administration officials and U.S. senators crisscrossed the Middle East on Monday, seeking to assuage growing unease...
Saudi king names new economy minister, eldest son as advisor
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's King Salman appointed a new economy minister and named his eldest living son as a special advisor in...
Security improves in Syria camp, but virus threat grows
AL-HOL, Syria — Concerns are growing of a coronavirus outbreak at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria that houses tens of thousands of refugees,...
UAE award ‘regrets’ that philosopher Habermas rejected prize
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The board of trustees of a high-priced literary award from the United Arab Emirates expressed regret on Monday that...
G-7 ministers to hold first in-person talks in 2 years
LONDON — Foreign and development ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrial nations will be meeting in London this week in their first...
Yacht with 170 migrants towed to southern Greek port
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s coast guard says it has towed a yacht carrying 170 migrants to a port on the country’s southern mainland after...
Iraq military: 4 rockets hit Iraqi air base, no casualties
BAGHDAD — Four Katyusha rockets hit an Iraqi military base that houses U.S. contractors Monday without causing any casualties, Iraq's military said in a...
At Tehran garage, Iranian woman polishes cars and her dreams
TEHRAN, Iran — It’s a men's-only club in the tangle of auto repair shops on the traffic-clogged streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran. Among them,...
Syrian court accepts 3 candidates to run for president
BEIRUT — Syria’s Supreme Constitutional Court has accepted three applications out of 51 for candidacy for this month’s presidential elections in the war-torn country,...
