Sudanese protesters have returned to the streets to call for more reforms a year after a power-sharing deal between the pro-democracy movement and the generals

Israel and the United Arab Emirates say they are establishing full diplomatic relations in a U.S.-brokered deal that required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex occupied West Bank land sought by the Palestinians

Egyptians are voting for the Senate, the upper chamber of parliament that was revived as part of constitutional amendments approved in a national referendum last year

Israel’s finance minister says he will bring a short-term budget up for a vote next week, setting up a showdown between the bloated government’s main two coalition partners that could spark its dissolution only months after it was formed

Countries that have long been the target of American criticism have seized upon the unrest in the U_S_ An Iranian official evoked a State Department setting by speaking to reporters from a lectern with a backdrop map of the world and talking about “state oppression.”

Iran’s parliament has voted to elect a hard-line former mayor of Tehran as the legislative body’s new speaker

Iran has convened its newly elected parliament, dominated by conservative lawmakers and under strict social distancing regulations, as the country struggles to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus that has hit the nation hard

Israel’s president has asked the Knesset to choose a new prime minister, giving the parliament three weeks to agree upon a leader or plunge the country into an unprecedented fourth consecutive election in just over a year