All Middle East
Is Turkey ready to elect its first openly gay lawmaker?Bar谋艧 Sulu hopes to become the voice of the country's burgeoning LGBT-rights movement by winning a seat in parliament. Turkey goes to the polls on June 7.
FocusAbbas is old, Hamas divided: Who will lead Palestinians?A Hamas-affiliated party recently won elections at a university outside Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority. It's being taken as a sign of rising criticism of Palestinian leaders and institutions.
ISIS claims responsibility for Texas Muhammad cartoon shootingIt was the first time the ISIS, which frequently calls for attacks against the West, had claimed responsibility for one in the United States.
At violent protests in Israel, new generation of Ethiopian Jews is heardThe police beating of an Ethiopian-Jewish soldier has angered the immigrant community's youth. Compared to their parents they're better equipped to demand an end to discrimination in Israel.
Syria crisis: Spooked by rebel gains, Jordan doubles down vs. Islamic StateThe Free Syrian Army has received US patronage in its fight against Syria's dictatorship. But the rise of Islamist militias in the rebels' ranks has led Jordan, a US ally, to switch its focus to counter-terrorism.
Israeli president says Ethiopian protest exposes 'wound'While Ethiopian聽Israelis have held demonstrations in the past, the protests have rarely turned violent, and never on the scale of Sunday's unrest.
Jimmy Carter calls situation in Gaza 'intolerable' in visit to JerusalemThe former president聽remains聽determined to work for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza after聽brokering the first Israeli-Arab peace treaty during his time in office.
Taliban representatives to meet with Afghan officials in QatarThe聽meeting would be the first sign of life in weeks for a hoped-for peace process. Could it lead to formal talks?
Canadian prime minister visits Iraq as bomb attacks kill 13The Canadian government has announced $139 million in additional aid to address the refugee crisis around the region.
US, Iran at odds over sanctions relief: Was making it public a mistake?Two months before a deadline for a deal on Iran鈥檚 nuclear program, the 'fact sheet' made public in Lausanne has left US and Iranian negotiators politically exposed.
Migrant crisis: In divided Libya, few resources to stem the flowA Libyan coast guard commander says he has聽fewer than 10 boats to patrol one 300-mile stretch of coastline favored by smugglers. Over 25,000 asylum seekers have sailed from Libya and Egypt so far this year.
Israeli Arab party made election history. Now it hopes to make progress.Symbolizing how the united party hopes to win Jewish supporters for its aims, a demonstration against home demolitions was held Tuesday in the heart of Tel Aviv.
King Salman resets Saudi succession planThe changes come as Saudi Arabia navigates the messy aftermath of the Arab spring and worries that its strategic partner Washington is disengaging from the region.
Jerusalem home buyers find leftist ideals cost a bedroom or twoHomes in Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, built on land captured in the 1967 Israeli-Arab war, are far less expensive than in the western half of the city, drawing many buyers. But not all.
Saudi Arabia arrests 93, stopping terror plot against US Embassy thereAuthorities in the Middle Eastern kingdom say the group, taken into custody in the last several weeks, has ties to the Islamic State group.
Could military action help solve Europe's Mediterranean refugee crisis?Though striking the refugee-smugglers might briefly disrupt the flow of migrants from Libya to Italy, it doesn't address what's causing the crisis in the first place.
Why Iran is standing by its weakened, and expensive, ally SyriaIran already spends $35 billion a year to prop up the Assad regime, according to one estimate. Iranian officials say Syria is of supreme strategic importance.- ISIS launches multiple attacks in western IraqIn response to the Iraq Army offensive in Tikrit, ISIS launched assaults on a Jordan border crossing, as well as a聽water dam and military barracks in western Anbar province.聽
- Syria loses another strategic town to rebelsThe northwestern Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughour was captured by Islamist militants, including the Nusra Front, on Saturday. It's the聽latest in a series of setbacks for Syrian government forces in the south and the north.
Saudi policy in Yemen: Sign of an inferiority complex?Saudi Arabia's assertiveness in Yemen is being interpreted as evidence of Saudi fears that arch-enemy Iran has the upper hand in proxy battles across the Middle East.聽