Middle East News

Israel's defense minister says a peace agreement with the Palestinians is unreachable unless they recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland.

Along with some 20 other Syrian children, 13-year-old Anas braves rain, mud and cold to attend class in a tent pitched along Lebanon's border with Syria, the home of a Syrian refugee family that serves as a classroom for four hours each day.

Syrian soldiers entered eastern districts of the town of Yabroud, the last rebel bastion near the Lebanese border north of Damascus, on Saturday and advanced towards the main street, Al Mayadeen television said.

An Iraqi man who once helped anti-government forces try to overthrow Saddam Hussein pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple state counts of attempted murder after authorities say he detonated a homemade explosive device outside a Social Security Administration office in Arizona in 2012.

Men wearing surgical masks as a precautionary measure against the novel coronavirus, speak at a hospital in Khobar city in Dammam May 23, 2013.

An attorney for a man who claims he was tortured in the United Arab Emirates at the behest of the U.S. government says his client is too afraid to attempt to travel back to the U.S. American Muslim Yonas Fikre sued the FBI and the State Department last year alleging the agencies demanded that he spy on a Portland mosque.

The prevention of 14 Israeli tourists from disembarking from their Norwegian cruise ship in Tunisia was because they didn't have visas and had nothing to do with politics, Tunisia's new tourism minister said Friday.

William Hague says the UK is 'continuing to do everything we can' to bring the crisis in Syria to an end Britain will "intensify" efforts to find a political settlement in Syria as the conflict reaches the "terrible landmark" of its third anniversary, the Government has said.

Jordanian policemen guard the parliament near an Israeli flag painted on the street by the protesters in front of the parliament in Amman March 11, 2014.

In this file photo taken Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, Syria's Foreign Minister and head of the Syrian government delegation Walid al-Moallem gestures during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

A contentious draft law being considered in Iraq could open the door to girls as young as nine getting married and would require wives to submit to sex on their husband's whim, provoking outrage from rights activists and many Iraqis who see it as a step backward for women's rights.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has accused one of his main rivals, Mohammed Dahlan, of involvement in six murders, hinting that he might also be behind the death of former leader Yasser Arafat.

Turkey's leader on Thursday criticized protests being held regarding the death of a teenager who was wounded by police as an attempt to create chaos and influence upcoming elections.

David Cameron has urged the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to be "partners for peace" after holding talks with both sides during a two-day visit to the Middle East.

The global industry for halal food and lifestyle products -- ones that meet Islamic law standards of manufacture -- is estimated to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars and is multiplying as Muslim populations grow.

Officials say censors in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar will ban the release of "Noah," the upcoming big-budget Hollywood film featuring Russell Crowe as the ark-building prophet.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and the joint U.N.-Arab League mediator on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, issued a joint statement citing "alarming reports" that Syria's heritage is being deliberately targeted for ideological reasons.

The Israeli military said it was the largest rocket barrage since 2012, when it launched an eight-day air campaign in Gaza it said was aimed at stopping the attacks.

Iran and Russia have discussed a draft agreement to build at least two nuclear power stations in the Islamic Republic, Iran's official news agency reported.

Vin Diesel and other members of the "Fast & Furious 7" cast are heading to the Mideast city of Abu Dhabi after months of uncertainty about the fate of the film.