Iran is getting a boost to its status as an international arms supplier. Tehran hosted defense ministers from Bolivia and Belarus in July and early August to discuss military cooperation with its fellow anti-American allies. Bolivia later said it is interested in obtaining Iranian drone...
Western-backed maritime forces in the Middle East on Saturday warned shippers traveling through the strategic Strait of Hormuz to stay as far away from Iranian territorial waters as possible to avoid being seized, a stark advisory amid heightened tensions between Iran and the United...
An attack by jihadis with the Islamic State group on Syrian government forces in the war-torn country’s east has killed 33 soldiers, a monitor said Saturday, revising an earlier toll of 26 deaths. The attack late Thursday on an army bus was the extremist group’s deadliest...
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets Saturday in Tel Aviv in the latest protest of the hard-right government’s controversial plans for a judicial overhaul that opponents see as a threat to democracy. Since the government unveiled the changes in January, tens of thousands of...
The King of Jordan approved a bill Saturday to punish online speech deemed harmful to national unity, according to the Jordanian state news agency, legislation that has drawn accusations from human rights groups of a crackdown on free expression in a country where censorship is on the...
