Mideast news

Trump backs two-state solution: 'I think that's what works best'

He also defended Israel's right to respond militarily to threats to its borders on all sides.

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference.
US President Donald Trump meets with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in March.

Trump backs two-state solution: "I think that's what works best"

Britian's Prince William meets with Presidents Reuven Rivlin

Prince William says he is dedicated to bring about Mideast peace

A MIGRANT looks out of a barred door at a detention center in Gharyan, Libya, on October 12

Slavery and dispossession in the modern Middle East


Leader of Syrian al-Qaida wing says aiming to take Damascus

Nusra Front leader Abu Mohamad al-Golani tells Al Jazeera that Syrian President "Assad's fall won't take a long time."

Members of al-Qaida's‏ Nusra Front [File]

Analysis: NPT - Five years of grace

The next Review Conference will be convened in 2020.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations

Hezbollah's Nasrallah: The US can't protect anyone from ISIS

Leader of Lebanese Shi'ite organization calls for countrymen to "end their silence and confront the [infidel] threat" posed by Islamic State, Syrian rebel groups.

Hassan Nasrallah

Abbas: Israeli settlement activity preventing peace talks

At World Economic Forum, Palestinian Authority president calls on international community to intervene on issue of settlement building.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Netanyahu says he wants talks with Palestinians to resume, sources claim

Silvan Shalom to be in charge of peace process with Palestinians.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) and Likud's Silvan Shalom [File]

Hezbollah clashes with al-Qaida-linked group on Lebanon-Syria border

Fighters from pro-Assad Lebanese terror group clash with gunmen from opponents of Damascus regime - Nusra Front.

Members of al-Qaida's‏ Nusra Front [File]

Syria's Assad: ISIS has expanded since start of US-led air strikes

President of embattled country says there are some estimates that Islamic State is attracting 1,000 recruits a month in Syria.

Bashar Assad

Lebanese-American porn star sparks rage in Arab world after success

Mia Khalifa, who grew up in Lebanon, has been the target of many death threats on social media after becoming a top porn star on the web in 2014.

Mia Khalifa

Experts raise speculation over succession after Saudi king falls ill

Prof. Teitelbaum to ‘Post’: Saudi successions are usually smooth. The royal family knows that succession battles can be devastating and will do everything to avoid one.

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud speaks before a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry (not pictured) at his private residence in the Red Sea city of Jeddah

Price tag for Middle East chaos: $35 billion

The Policy Research Working Paper released in December analyzes the economic effects on Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, finding that Syria and Iraq have been hardest hit.

AN ISIS member rides on a rocket launcher in Raqqa in Syria two months ago