Saudi Arabia's crown prince says he bears responsibility for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year by Saudi operatives "because it happened under my watch," according to a PBS documentary to be broadcast next week.

Iran’s president yesterday closed the door on meeting Donald Trump despite last-minute European efforts to ease tensions as the United States again ramped up punishing sanctions.

Candidates in Afghanistan’s presidential election pushed their messages for the last time yesterday as campaigning for weekend polls wrapped up amid deadly violence.

More than 500 people have been arrested across Egypt since demonstrations broke out in Cairo and other cities, a local rights group said Monday. Hundreds of Egyptians took to the streets on Friday and Saturday

Hassan Rouhani landed in New York Monday for the UN General Assembly, but the Iranian leader won’t be allowed to see much of the Big

Seven children were among 16 people killed yesterday in twin air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in southern Yemen. A

Israel’s national electricity company said Sunday it was cutting power to parts of the occupied West Bank due to outstanding payments amounting to nearly $483 million. The Israel Electric Corporation said it was owed 1.7 billion shekels in debts from the main Palestinian

Israeli Arab political parties broke with longstanding precedent Sunday and endorsed ex-military chief Benny Gantz for prime minister following last week’s elections, seeking to keep the president from asking incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next government.

At least 35 civilians attending a wedding party were killed and 13 people wounded by explosions and gunfire during a raid by Afghan government forces on a nearby militant hideout, two officials in southern Helmand province said yesterday.

At least 40 civilians attending a wedding party are killed by explosions and gunfire during a raid by US-backed Afghan government forces on a nearby Islamist militant hideout, officials in Helmand province say.

The United Nations envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths welcomed Saturday an offer from the country’s Huthi rebels to halt all attacks on

Israel was set for crucial discussions yesterday on who should try to form the next government as last week’s deadlocked election

Egyptian security forces, for the second consecutive night ,clashed with hundreds of anti-government protesters in the port city of

Twelve civilians were killed and five were wounded Friday in a bomb blast on a bus at the northern edge of the Iraqi Shia holy city of

Rare small protests were staged overnight in Cairo and other Egyptian cities calling for the removal of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,

Yemen’s Huthi rebels unexpectedly announced late Friday that they planned to halt all attacks on Saudi Arabia as part of a peace

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main challenger Benny Gantz were deadlocked yesterday after an Israeli general election, reports said, raising the possibility of a unity government or even the end of the premier’s long rule.

US President Donald Trump yesterday said he ordered a major increase in sanctions on Iran as Saudi Arabia displayed remnants of drones and missiles it said Tehran used in a crippling weekend attack on its oil facilities.

Israeli security personnel shot a Palestinian woman who tried to stab them at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank yesterday, Israeli police said, and Palestinian officials said she died of her injury. The West Bank, among territories where Palestinians seek statehood, has

Twenty people, including children, were killed yesterday in the southern Philippines when the flatbed truck they were riding in