Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has named Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the party leader to try to cobble together a governing majority...

The visit by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Tripoli on April 6, and his meetings there with Libya’s interim political leadership, marked a return by Greece to engagement with the North African nation...

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassi is still in Lebanon and did not travel Tuesday to Paris, contrary to the latest media reports, sources close to him said...

Having been formally tasked with assembling a government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set out Tuesday to secure an elusive ruling majority, scheduling a meeting with Yamina chief Naftali Bennett and reportedly offering senior positions to poten...

Dozens of Iraqi protesters blocked the entrance to the Nassiriya oil refinery in southern Iraq for the fifth day in a row, a refinery source and a Reuters’ witness said...

Senegal opened on Monday a consulate in Dakhla, in the Western Sahara, joining other African and Arab countries in supporting Morocco’s claim to the disputed territory, Moroccan media reported...

Both Jordan’s Palace and a confidant of a senior royal issued statements Monday, saying that mediation has successfully resolved an unprecedented public feud between King Abdullah II and Prince Hamzah, his half-brother...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Israel next week, according to a report published on Tuesday...

Iran said Tuesday that 10 officials have involved in the incident of downing a Ukrainian passenger plane last year, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency...

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, arrived in Amman yesterday carrying a message confirming Saudi Arabia’s stand by Jordan in facing all challenges...

President Reuven Rivlin gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the mandate to form a coalition on Tuesday morning, after the Likud leader received the most recommendations from his fellow members of Knesset...

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Monday to guarantee coronavirus vaccine supplies to Argentina in a phone call with the country’s leader...

China says the sailing of a Chinese carrier group near self-ruled Taiwan is part of naval drills that will become regular...

Following Israel’s fourth election in two years, a muddy picture emerges. Though despised by many voters, Benjamin Netanyahu remains the most potent force in the country...

A white former US police officer, accused of killing African-American George Floyd during an arrest last year, violated Minneapolis Police Department rules and its ethics code, the city’s police chief testified at the murder trial on Monday...

Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man and injured his wife in the occupied West Bank over an alleged car-ramming attempt against the regime’s troops...

More than 1,800 prisoners have escaped jail in Nigeria after the building was stormed by gunmen with rocket propelled grenades and explosives, officials say...

Alexei Navalny has been moved to a sick ward with symptoms of a respiratory illness and has been tested for Covid-19 following his hunger strike at a Russian prison...

The majority of respondents to a Japanese poll said they would prefer to see Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga resign either immediately or by fall, according to a local press report...

Multiple disasters caused by torrential rains in eastern Indonesia have killed at least 70 people and displaced thousands, the country's disaster relief agency has said...