In April 1980, President Jimmy Carter authorized Operation Eagle Claw, an ill-fated military operation to rescue the American ...

Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations, a collaborative global dream built into reality out of the ashes of World War II, ...

If Hezbollah’s grip on Lebanon finally breaks, it won’t just redraw maps in the Middle East—it could rewrite the calculus of ...

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country had “no choice” but to launch airstrikes to stop Iran’s ...

As the world waits to see if Donald Trump's talks will go ahead, look back at how previous US presidents have handled Iran.

Israel on June 13 launched coordinated airstrikes on Iranian nuclear and military facilities. As tensions escalate and the ...

Syrian refugees, who fled to Lebanon more than a decade ago to escape war, violence and persecution, have slowly begun to ...

UN High Commissioner for Refugees marks World Refugee Day meeting Syrians going home, but warns that returns will prove short-lived without increased international assistance.

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is raising the alarm over the deepening humanitarian emergency in eastern Chad, where the number of Sudanese refugees has more than tripled in just over two ...

So far the exodus from Iran has been tiny, but that could change. Many of those fleeing Tehran are heading north, to the less ...