The arts are thriving around the Arabian peninsula. From Doha to the smallest state of the United Arab Emirates, museums and galleries are making an ambitious mark on the Middle East's cultural landscape.
Turkey's prime minister, a staunch critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, on Tuesday called Israel's recent airstrikes in Syria "unacceptable."
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has called on the Saudi Telecommunication Authority to drop reported plans to block social media platforms.
It has been a rocky couple of years for the people of Egypt. Since the 2011 revolution, the economy has tanked, street protests are an almost daily occurrence and the political situation remains volatile.
Concern about the possibility of broader war in the Middle East grew Monday after reported airstrikes on Syrian military installations.
Israel is taking steps to defend itself against threatened retaliation from Syria after claims it launched a night assault on a suburb of the capital Damascus on Sunday. This was believed to be the second Israeli attack in three days.
(CNN) -- A flurry of explosions in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Mosul on Monday killed seven people and wounded 16, police said.
A series of massive explosions illuminated the dark sky over Damascus early Sunday, igniting renewed claims that Israel has launched attacks into the war-torn country.
Syria accused Israel of firing rockets into the Damascus suburb of Jamraya on Sunday, striking a "scientific research center," Syrian state TV reported.
Saudi Arabian girls will be allowed to practice sports in private schools for the first time, according to the nation's official press agency.
A U.S. journalist missing in Syria for nearly six months is likely in Syrian government custody, GlobalPost, an online news outlet, reported Friday.
President Obama said Friday that he did not foresee a scenario of "American boots on the ground in Syria" that would be good for that country or the region.
U.S. officials believe Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials told CNN.
President Obama said Friday that he did not foresee a scenario of "American boots on the ground in Syria" that would be good for that country or the region.
The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials first told CNN.
At least five people were killed and 30 others wounded Friday after a bombing outside a Sunni mosque in northeastern Baghdad, police said.
A fire broke out at the Damascus airport when mortar shells hit a kerosene tank and a plane, state news said.
Syrian troops took control of large swaths of territory in the flashpoint city of Homs on Thursday, encircling an opposition suburb, an activist group said.
For the generation of Iraqi artists who came of age under Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, one common subject was the dictator himself, often depicted holding a sword or riding an Arabian horse.
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Syrian troops took control of large swaths of territory in the flashpoint city of Homs Thursday, encircling an opposition suburb, an activist group said.
More people died violently in Iraq in April than in any other month in nearly five years, the United Nations said Thursday.
Syria's president made a rare public appearance Wednesday.
Attackers killed at least 16 people and wounded 31 more in Iraq on Wednesday, police and health officials said.
An Palestinian and an Israeli are killed in the latest rash of violence in the Middle East. Another Palestinian is stabbed and wounded, police said.
A wave of violence struck Iraq on Tuesday, with bomb blasts and gun battles killing at least six people and wounding more than 20, police officials told CNN.
The U.S. is waiting for details on the evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria, President Barack Obama said Tuesday.
CNN's Arwa Damon explains what's simmering behind the latest surge in violence in Iraq - attacks that some now fear could lead to full sectarian war.
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi survived a bombing targeting his motorcade Monday in a Damascus neighborhood; government and opposition report casualties.
At least 25 people were killed and 69 others were wounded in five car bombings in Iraq on Monday, police said,
Britain says it will continue to press for an independent probe into the case of three British citizens who were sentenced Monday to four years on drug charges
Iraq's government ordered 10 television networks shut down Sunday, accusing them of stoking sectarian violence.
Three British citizens held on drug charges in the United Arab Emirates since July could face a verdict as early as Monday.
Syrian rebels attacked several military airports across the country Sunday, including a sprawling base in the province of Idlib, opposition activists said.
Syria on Friday denied that it has used, or even possesses, chemical weapons and accused the United States and Britain of lying.
Israel won't open a criminal probe into the airstrike that killed 10 members of a Palestinian family and two neighbors during the November 2012 war with Gaza.
Attacks in and around Baghdad kill at least 14 people and injure more than 80, police and health officials said Friday.
The Israeli air force shot down a drone approaching the nation's coast Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The United States has evidence that the chemical weapon sarin has been used in Syria on a small scale, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday.
The Kurdish rebel group that has fought a guerrilla war against the Turkish state for the past 30 years announced it would begin withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to neighboring countries.
Iraqi President Nuri al-Maliki called for dialogue and resolve to halt the recent rise of violence in Iraq.
More violence engulfed Iraq on Wednesday as tensions rose between Sunnis and Shiites, with the latest bloodshed spurred by deadly clashes the day before in the town of Hawija.
Two Syrian Orthodox bishops remain missing two days after being kidnapped, with each side in the civil war blaming others for the snatching.
Are Syrian forces using chemical weapons in their years-long fight to hold on to power?
Violence in Iraq Tuesday left more than 30 people dead and dozens wounded, police and government officials said.
A mysterious, circular structure, with a diameter greater than the length of a Boeing 747 jet, has been discovered submerged about 30 feet (9 meters) underneath the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
The bodies of at least 566 people who were killed over a six-day period across Syria were found Sunday, an opposition group said.
Turkey and Israel met Monday to discuss how to compensate the families of victims of Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship that killed nine.
Israel has denied the request of 26 Palestinians from Gaza to participate in a long-distance race in the West Bank on Sunday.
An explosion at a busy restaurant in the Iraqi city of Falluja killed at least two people Sunday and wounded at least 22 more, police said.
A heavy police presence in Bahrain on Sunday limited marches by protesters organized to coincide with the controversial Formula One race in the kingdom, won by world champion Sebastian Vettel.
Iraqis on Saturday were heading to the polls to vote in provincial elections across the country.
A bomb exploded on Thursday night in a popular coffee shop in western Baghdad, killing at least 27 people and wounding 51 others, city police officials said.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned Western nations against supporting rebel groups battling his armed forces, predicting the militants will one day strike against the United States and others.
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have arrested seven people suspected of belonging to a terror cell, the UAE's official news agency WAM reported Thursday.
Four blasts in and around Baghdad killed at least three people and wounded 16 on Wednesday, police said.
The retrial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, his sons, his interior minister and six of his security aides will start on May 11, a Cairo appeals court decided Wednesday, according to a state-run news agency.
Two rockets landed in the southern Israeli city of Eilat on Wednesday, police said.
Iraqi authorities hanged 21 men after they were convicted of terrorism, the nation's Ministry of Justice reported Tuesday.
An earthquake in Iran Tuesday killed six people across the border in Pakistan, officials there said, but conflicting reports on casualties emerged from Iran.
A series of bomb blasts across Iraq on Monday killed at least 42 people and wounded more than 257 others, police said.
In 2003, former newspaper editor Ali Reza Eshraghi made a mistake that cost him his freedom: he published a cartoon.
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal backs giving women the right to drive in Saudi Arabia, saying it would help the economy and cut the number of foreign workers.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will remain behind bars even though he won an appeal asking to be released while awaiting trial, Egyptian state TV says.
Lebanon says it deployed troops near its border with Syria Sunday after artillery shells hit a Lebanese border village.
The place where the Syrian uprising began two years ago, the Omari mosque in Daraa, crumbled Saturday amid fighting between rebels and government forces.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, a Palestinian Authority spokeswoman told CNN.
The judge in the retrial of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak recused himself Saturday, referred the trial to a lower court and walked out of the room
Seven people were killed and 25 others were wounded when two roadside bombs exploded outside a Sunni mosque in Kanaan, Iraq, about 60 kilometers north of Baghdad on Friday afternoon, police in nearby Baquba said.
Dubai Police have revealed the latest addition to their patrol fleet -- a Lamborghini Aventador.
Syria's air force has repeatedly carried out "indiscriminate, and in some cases deliberate" airstrikes on civilians, Human Rights Watch said in a new report.
Comments posted to his Twitter account about an ongoing trial have put a man in Abu Dhabi in jail for 10 months.
After generations of conflict, the clamor of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute has the tendency to drown out other voices and stories from the region.
A Syrian group appears to align with al Qaeda but says it can achieve a Syrian Islamic state only with the help of other rebels, including secularists.
Saudi Arabia is denying reports that a Saudi court sentenced a man to be surgically paralyzed as punishment for having paralyzed another man.
A powerful earthquake struck Iran on Tuesday, killing at least 37 people but apparently sparing a nearby nuclear plant from any damage, Iranian state media said
An international donors conference on reconstruction and development in Darfur ended Monday with donors pledging nearly $3.7 billion.
Many migrant workers in the Mideast become victims of human trafficking, forced labor and sexual exploitation.
Two days after nuclear negotiations yielded little progress, Iran said it has opened two new uranium-processing sites to mark "National Nuclear Day."
Menachem Bodner is a soft-spoken 73-year-old, who thinks carefully before he describes his first memory as a three-year old child.
A car bomb reportedly killed at least 15 people and injured dozens of others at a large Damascus square Monday.
A Syrian airstrike in Aleppo has killed at least 15 people, including nine children, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday.
An international donors' conference on Darfur kicked off Sunday in Doha with the hope of raising $7.25 billion to bring aid and sustainable development to the troubled region in Sudan.
Beset by war and sectarian violence, Iraq has not had a lot to laugh about in recent years.
Several Israeli government websites appeared to crash anti-Israeli hackers launched cyber attacks Sunday, but Israeli hackers also claimed their own victory.
A suicide bomber detonated his vest inside an election campaign tent in central Baquba, Iraq, killing 18.
If the Syrian government falls, other countries in the region could suffer, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a Turkish news outlet Friday.
Rights groups say Saudi authorities are targeting activists through the courts and travel bans.
Babylon was one of the glories of the ancient world, its walls and mythic hanging gardens listed among the Seven Wonders.
A second Palestinian teen died Thursday from injuries he suffered during clashes with Israeli forces a day earlier, the official Palestinian news agency said.
Amnesty International has condemned a reported Saudi court ruling sentencing a man to be paralyzed as retribution for having paralyzed another man.
The patter of rockets from Gaza into Israel continued Wednesday, according to Israeli authorities.
The angry mobs barged into the newspaper buildings, in the heart of bustling Baghdad. They smashed equipment, stole files, beat up guards and workers, and tossed one person from a roof.
A well-known Palestinian prisoner died of cancer in Israeli custody on Tuesday, sparking outrage among Palestinian groups who accuse Israel of denying him treatment.
Israel conducted two airstrikes inside Gaza on Tuesday night, security sources in Gaza told CNN.
Hamas, the Palestinian movement running Gaza, has elected Khaled Meshaal as its political leader, sources said.
The brutal civil war in Syria claimed more than 6,000 lives in March alone, an opposition group reported.
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