Iran's Revolutionary Guard shoots down US drone amid heightened Tehran-Washington tensions over collapsing nuclear deal

The prime minister of Iraq says he has instructed his country's Oil Ministry to finalize an agreement with global energy giants ExxonMobil and PetroChina to lead a $53 billion megaproject to boost oil production

Police in Cyprus have recovered a second suitcase containing human remains from a contaminated lake where a military officer who confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls told authorities he dumped the bodies of three victims

Iraq's wettest rainy season in decades erases crippling drought, fills reservoirs but also tests infrastructure

Iranian tanker with over 1 million barrels of fuel oil suffers malfunction off coast of Saudi Arabia

Israeli police detain 4 suspects attempting to smuggle goats into Jerusalem holy site for Passover sacrifice

Turkey's military has sought to defend itself against accusations from a Greek marine conservation group that its naval exercises have been behind a recent spike in the number of dolphin deaths.

Egyptian province and major tourist destination to ban disposable plastics, from single use straws to plastic bags

David versus Goliath: Tiny religious sect emerges as key impediment for controversial Jerusalem cable car plan

A prominent American economist says there are "very few" people who still doubt climate change