Turkish Cypriots vote Sunday to choose a leader who’ll be tasked to explore, with rival Greek Cypriots, if there’s enough common ground left for a deal to end decades of ethnic division on the island

The Israeli government has approved the extension of an emergency provision that bars public gatherings, including widespread protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for an additional week

A top U.N. official has condemned the recent clashes in Yemen’s strategic port city of Hodeida, which has so far left dozens of casualties, and urged the country’s warring parties to immediately stop the fighting

Iranian state TV says the country has hit its highest number of daily deaths from the coronavirus, with 239 new fatalities

Israeli police have clashed with hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews overnight as they sought to enforce restrictions on public gatherings during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown

Sudan’s fragile interim government is sharply divided over normalizing relations with Israel, as it finds itself under intense pressure from the Trump administration to become the third Arab country to do so in short order _ after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain

Tens of thousands of Israelis are demonstrating in hundreds of locations across Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Oman's new sultan, while quietly making his mark, faces real challenges ahead