Middle East News

The family of Palestinian director and actor Mohammad Bakri says he has died at 72. Bakri was known for exploring…

A former close aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7,…

The top Catholic leader in the Holy Land has visited the Gaza Strip’s only Catholic church, sharing a message of Christmas…

Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to recover from torrential rains that have battered the enclave for days, flooding camps for…

A Syrian security guard who attacked and killed three U.S. citizens in Syria had joined the internal security forces two…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rains drenched Gaza’s tent camps and dropping temperatures chilled Palestinians huddling inside them Thursday…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief called on Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Tuesday not to prosecute detained U.N.…

METULA, Israel (AP) — Ilan Rosenfeld walks through the burnt-out shell of his former business, stepping over crackling pieces of…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For Googoosh, Iran’s most-famous singer, life always has been balancing act of one kind…

CAIRO (AP) — Iran has sentenced acclaimed director Jafar Panahi to a year in prison in absentia, even as he…