Female journalists are angry over gender segregation at a holy Jewish site.

The withdrawal is a potent acknowledgment of how Ukrainian missile and drone strikes are challenging Moscow’s hold on the peninsula.

U.S. officials are leaning on Turkey to stop Russian airlines from flying American-made airplanes to and from the country, said officials familiar with the talks.

The intelligence assessment says the U.S. can’t verify Israeli allegations that a larger number of U.N. workers have links to militant groups, people familiar with the report said.

The Wall Street Journal reporter was ordered to be held in a Moscow prison until at least Aug. 30.

Turkish companies last year exported tens of millions of dollars worth of machinery, electronics, spare parts and other items that Russia needs for its military, according to a survey of trade data.

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is further curbing Russia’s access to the international financial system through facilitators and...

Egypt is giving Moscow crucial access to its airspace, testing the limits of Washington’s ability to choke off Moscow’s supplies ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Authoritarian regimes take hostages to send a signal. Evan Gershkovich's defiant appearance before a Moscow court sends the right signal back.

In letter to President Biden, lawmakers cite Riyadh’s refusal to cooperate with Washington over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a range of human-rights issues.

Researchers at Citizen Lab found that NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company, had infected Apple products without so much as a click.

In the Middle East, westerners routinely confuse youth with a commitment to change

US president says he is ‘working like hell’ to secure release of Wall Street Journal reporter held in Russia on espionage charges

The U.S. Treasury Department is intensifying pressure on a NATO ally that has maintained strong ties with Moscow

Using innovative attacks, Ukraine has eroded Russia’s formidable naval advantage, and it is starting to reopen ports.

Russia’s main security agency said it had detained a Wall Street Journal reporter for what it described as espionage. The Journal denied allegations against him.

Turkish companies have bought dozens of tankers that ship Russian oil, playing a critical role in Moscow’s efforts to fund its war in Ukraine.

The correspondent, whose parents fled the Soviet Union, made Moscow a second home. He was detained Wednesday by the FSB for alleged espionage, an allegation the Journal vehemently denies.

President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi’s government has detained more than 4,300 people since last month in response to a wave of demonstrations against his rule.

A shipping line with ties to the Russian Defense Ministry has been carrying arms through the Bosporus to aid Moscow’s war effort, according to Ukrainian officials who have asked Turkey to block the...

The vessels have made more than 100 stops at the ports, threatening to further inflame relations between the U.S. and Turkey, which is the only NATO member that hasn’t sanctioned the Kremlin.

The group used gunfire to disperse street demonstrations against Taliban rule and continued to block people from reaching Kabul’s international airport to flee the country.

Ruth Michaelson had reported on study that questioned country’s official tally of cases

Militia leader Khalifa Haftar, who commands troops in eastern Libya and faces a pivotal moment in his efforts to retake the rest of the country, is facing lawsuits in the U.S. that accuse him of war...

Members of Congress who object to Erdogan’s relationship with Putin resist Turkey’s potential purchase of the jet fighters.

Sezgin Baran Korkmaz is at the center of an extradition fight between the U.S. and Turkey, which both want him on charges of laundering proceeds from a renewable-energy tax credit fraud, and where he...

The country dropped its plans to send rockets to Russia under U.S. pressure, but hasn’t joined the Biden administration’s push to generate arms for Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

Sherif Osman, a native of Egypt, criticized the Egyptian ruling elite from his home in the U.S. and called for protests at COP27 where President Biden met Egypt’s autocratic leader.

In the wake of the Arab Spring, the military has amassed a growing business empire, squeezing out private-sector competitors. Now, amid soaring inflation and high youth unemployment, popular resent...

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, aiming to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said in an interview that if he wins on Sunday he would strengthen Turkey’s role in NATO and revive a bid to join the EU.

Egypt has been warned that any financial bailout would depend on Cairo devaluing its currency and appointing new officials to run its economy.

Kyiv has used the unmanned vessels to strike back at Russia’s more powerful navy and threaten Russian military supply lines and shipping lanes.

A Russian-backed warlord vying for power in Libya has hired ex-senior Clinton aide Lanny Davis and former GOP lawmaker Bob Livingston to lead a $1 million effort to lobby the Biden administration for...

Saudi Arabia named a princess as its new ambassador to the U.S., an envoy who faces the challenge of navigating strained relations between the two allies amid the fallout over the murder of dissident...

The stronger tidal effect made it easier to partially float the Ever Given but also gave engineers a hard deadline.

Days before Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive to seize the capital and attempt to unite the divided country under his rule, Saudi Arabia promised tens of millions of...

Two nights of protests resulted in hundreds of arrests in the most significant political challenge in years to President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.

He was a seminal figure of modern jihad as al Qaeda shifted from seeking to topple authoritarian regimes in the Middle East to waging war on the West.

Evan Gershkovich, detained on an espionage charge since March, will remain in a Russian jail until at least Nov. 30.

Saudi Arabia and Egypt successfully lobbied President Trump to reverse U.S. policy in Libya and support a rogue general leading an offensive on a government in Tripoli backed by the U.N., according...

The vessels have made more than 100 stops at the ports, threatening to further inflame relations between the U.S. and Turkey, which is the only NATO member that hasn’t sanctioned the Kremlin.

The $20 billion sale is contingent on Ankara’s approval of NATO expansion, administration officials said, and comes alongside a sale of F-35s to Greece.

Hundreds of Egyptians marched in Cairo and other cities on Friday in a second weekend of protests calling for the removal of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi amid the largest wave of arrests since he...

The tragedy is unfolding in the country’s east, where two dams were overwhelmed. In the coastal city of Derna, entire buildings were washed out to sea.

The findings by an international chemical-weapons watchdog add to evidence of the Syrian government’s war crimes.

We tell you the story of the American reporter who has been imprisoned in Russia.

Russia is adapting to Western sanctions on its military supply chain by turning to a netherworld of shipping and logistics companies to bring in more armed drones from Iran.

Moscow ends Syrian aid corridor and may block the renewal of the Black Sea grain deal.

Israeli official appears to back away from earlier claims Palestinians to blame for death of Shireen Abu Aqleh

A wave of economic austerity is squeezing the Arab world’s middle class, pushing a segment of society that is key to growth and stability into making painful cutbacks and fueling discontent.

The United Arab Emirates ramped up deliveries of military supplies to Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar this year, according to a confidential United Nations report, flouting an arms embargo as the Gulf...

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seized control of Egypt in the wake of an uprising against Mohamed Morsi's autocratic regime. Since then, Sisi's regime has imprisoned opponents and killed protesters

An Egyptian filmmaker detained for two years over a music video that mocked Egypt President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has died, another death inside the country’s prisons that human-rights groups have...

Decades of ignored warnings stretch from the days of the Gadhafi regime to the disaster that killed thousands.

Militia leader Khalifa Haftar, who commands troops in eastern Libya and faces a pivotal moment in his efforts to retake the rest of the country, is facing lawsuits in the U.S. that accuse him of war...