This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
Insurgency
What 24 hours of chaos in Iraq says about who controls...
It took just 24 hours for Iraq's most powerful man to showcase his might on the...
Powerful Iraqi cleric tells supporters to stand down after...
Powerful Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his supporters to go home on...
At least 10 killed in clashes in Baghdad's Green Zone after...
At least 10 people were killed and more than 200 injured in violent clashes that...
AQAP Fast Facts
Read CNN's Fast Facts about AQAP, which stands for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Four ways the Ukraine war has impacted the Middle East
Six months on, the biggest European war since 1945 has had an outsized impact on...
Bashar al-Assad Fast Facts
View the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Fast Facts on CNN and learn more information...
Turkish pop star jailed after a joke about religious schools...
Turkish pop star Gulsen Colakoglu has been jailed pending trial on charges of "inciting...
Forty years on, Hezbollah is isolated but more powerful...
Over the years, the Lebanese Shiite group has tried to rebrand itself from a paramilitary...
Hamas executes five in Gaza, including two accused of spying...
Hamas executed five Palestinians in Gaza, including two on charges of cooperating...
Israel set for possible fifth election in four years as...
Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has effectively called time on his premiership...
Saudi Arabia releases Murtaja Qureiris, once the youngest...
Murtaja Qureiris, once considered by lawyers and activists as the youngest political...
Biden and Saudi have a lot to lose if talks are a bust
Biden is doing what many expected him to do when he got into the White House: deal...
How a failed vote on Jewish settlers shows the Israeli...
Efforts by Netanyahu and his allies to bring down Israel's governing coalition risk...
Why enemies Lebanon and Israel are talking now
Lebanon and Israel, officially at a state of war, are holding indirect talks in...
Iraq's most powerful politician has just caused a 'tectonic...
After eight months of political paralysis, the kingmaker of Iraqi politics has ordered...
Israeli police conclude probe into conduct at Shireen Abu...
Israeli police say they have concluded the investigation into police actions during...