The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet says Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized and later let go of a U.S. sea drone in the Persian Gulf

Iraq witnessed bloody street violence for nearly 24 hours spurred by loyalists of a powerful Shiite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, that was the culmination of a 10-month power struggle

Supporters of an influential Iraqi Shiite cleric have fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns into Iraq’s Green Zone as security forces returned fire

An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced the Gaza director of a major international charity to 12 years in prison

An Israeli court has sentenced a Gaza aid worker to 12 years in prison after he was found guilty earlier this year of several terrorism charges in a high-profile case in which independent probes found no evidence of wrongdoing

Iran has closed its land borders to Iraq as flights to the country halted amid violence in Baghdad following an influential Shiite cleric’s announcement he would resign from politics

An influential Shiite cleric announced that he will resign from Iraqi politics, and hundreds of his angry followers responded by storming the government palace

An influential Shiite cleric announced that he will resign from Iraqi politics, and hundreds of his angry followers responded by storming the government palace