King Abdullah reaffirms support for two states in meeting with PA president, who will sit down with el-Sissi on Monday in trip following Ramallah’s renewed ties with Israel Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas traveled to Jordan and then Egypt on Sunday to meet with the leaders of those countries in …

Talks between Israel and Lebanon over disputed maritime borders that were scheduled to take place this week have been postponed, Israeli and Lebanese officials said Monday.

A top Iranian security official on Monday accused Israel of using “electronic devices” to remotely kill a scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the 2000s.

Israel is concerned over growing Iranian entrenchment in Yemen, not unlike the way Iran operates in Syria. The US Department of State issued a statement Nov. 10, calling for the immediate and unconditioned release of Levi Salem Musa Marhabi, imprisoned for the last four years by the Houthi militia in Yemen. …

Lebanon’s political elite have yet to form a government despite the urgency as the country slides further into economic collapse. France, the United States and other countries’ stances with Lebanon’s ruling class seem to be intensifying after the latter failed to form a government that would pull the country out …

What are supposed to be three-way talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam between Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia took one more turn for the worse as Khartoum boycotted the last round of negotiations.

Half a year away from Iran’s presidential election, the country’s hard-liners are already hard at work to ensure the next president is on their side.

Egypt, Greece and Cyprus are preparing to conduct joint military exercises in the Mediterranean Sea as a European summit is expected to impose sanctions on Ankara amid escalating tensions over maritime borders and gas exploration rights.

As Iran investigates the assassination of a top nuclear scientist, fingers are already pointing at Israel and the United States, whose outgoing administration clearly wants to minimize the chances of reviving the nuclear deal.

It makes sense that a continent home to 54 countries and 1.2 billion people would also house a mass of contradictory developments. Africa features several of the world’s fastest-growing economies and a burgeoning middle class. But much of the continent remains mired in debt, ravaged by conflict, disease or terrorism, …