Middle East


Kurdistan Region hopes for stability with new Iraq Prime Minister

New Iraqi Prime Minister designate Ali al-Zaidi, uses a phone at his office in Baghdad, Iraq, April 28, 2026.

Yemen says oil tanker hijacked off Shabwa coast, heads towards Somali waters

A Yemeni coast guard boat escorts a tugboat ferrying members of a Houthi delegation to attend a meeting of a committee overseeing a UN-led peace deal that will be held on board a UN-chartered ship off Yemen's port city of Hodeidah September 8, 2019.

'Be our voice': Brutalized Iranians speak of loved ones taken by the Islamic regime

ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE. The Mama family, whose father Osman was detained by Iranian security forces in 2022 and has not been heard from since.