More on the Middle East
By Ramin Mostaghim and Alexandra Sandels
TEHRAN — A week ago, many observers viewed Iran's presidential election as a horse-race among conservative hard-liners hostile to...
By Glen Johnson and Jeffrey Fleishman
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Hundreds of riot police firing tear gas stormed a central Istanbul park Saturday, tearing down tents and clearing...
By Ramin Mostaghim and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — Electoral authorities were counting ballots Saturday after tens of millions of Iranians turned out to vote for a successor to...
By Paul Richter, Christi Parsons and David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Delivering weapons and ammunition to beleaguered Syrian rebels will take weeks, White House officials acknowledged Friday...
By Paul Richter and Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The White House declared Thursday that Syria had crossed a "red line" by using chemical weapons in that country's civil...
By Ramin Mostaghim, Alexandra Sandels and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — Millions of Iranians headed to the polls early Friday to choose a new president in balloting that has taken on a...
By Glen Johnson and Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Besieged Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed Friday to freeze construction in a popular Istanbul...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Facing a growing humanitarian crisis, Oxfam, the international relief agency, set a goal in January of raising $53...
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Glen Johnson, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — With swagger and grand designs, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rose to power more than a decade ago,...
By Glen Johnson and Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Protesters defying a blunt warning from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan engaged in running battles...
By Ramin Mostaghim, Alexandra Sandels and Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — When Iranians go to the polls Friday, they will bid an unceremonious farewell to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the populist with the...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
QUSAIR, Syria — A line of unmarked cars and pickup trucks ferried weary Hezbollah fighters back to Lebanon on Sunday as stunned...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Two years into a civil war that shows no signs of ending, the Obama administration is considering resettling refugees who...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
HOMS, Syria — The grizzled veteran of Syria's civil war was confident of victory, but he didn't underestimate his rebel adversaries...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Israeli doctors were among the first to set up emergency hospitals in Haiti after its devastating 2010 earthquake....
By Alexandra Sandels and Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — He sits on a couch in an inconspicuous building in a southern suburb of Beirut. A baseball cap pulled down low, his eyes...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
DAMASCUS, Syria — After two years of grinding conflict, they are talking victory in Mazzeh Jabal 86, a gritty urban hillside where...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — A battle over water has turned into a war of colorful rhetoric between Ethiopia and Egypt over the flow of the Nile, which...
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The retaking of the strategic Syrian town of Qusair by government forces Wednesday dealt a pivotal setback to rebels who in...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — The convictions Tuesday of 19 Americans who worked for pro-democracy groups highlight Egypt's long-standing resistance to...
By Glen Johnson and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkey's deputy prime minister offered an apology Tuesday for a bruising police crackdown on antigovernment...
By Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama announced new economic sanctions on Iran on Monday in a bid to raise pressure on conservative hard-liners...
By Glen Johnson and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — What began as local dispute about threatened green space in this metropolis has morphed into a nationwide...
By Maher Abukhater and Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The new Palestinian Authority prime minister is a British-educated academic with no political experience who...
By Glen Johnson, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — A weekend of protest in Turkey has left the country reeling, with thousands of dissidents taking to the streets...
By Irene Lacher
Iranian American actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, who earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in "House of Sand and Fog" (2003), writes...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT— With violence increasingly spilling over Syria's borders, refugees swamping its neighbors and new arms transfers to both sides...
By Ingy Hassieb, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's 2011 uprising was often referred to as a youth revolution, but two years after longtime President Hosni Mubarak was...
By Henry Chu and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — Diplomatic pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad escalated Monday, as a divided European Union agreed to relax a ban on...
By Aziz Alwan, Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — In apparently coordinated attacks, at least 10 bombings shattered Iraqi neighborhoods Monday, killing at least 53 people,...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
HERZLIYA, Israel — High-tech entrepreneur Kobi Stok is chasing the new Israeli dream.
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Lebanese leaders called on their people Sunday to reject sectarian attacks after a pair of rockets slammed into a Beirut...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The hunt for proof that Syrian government forces used banned chemical weapons may come down to a rotting corpse exhumed...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The leader of the militant group Hezbollah on Saturday aligned his powerful movement squarely behind the government of Syrian...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Ryan Crocker has long been viewed as America's indispensable diplomat in the Muslim world. President George W. Bush named...
By Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
AMMAN, Jordan — Refugees from war-ravaged Syria began trickling back into Jordan on Saturday, a week after a more than two-year exodus...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Obama's commitment to scaling back the use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists could...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad's government has agreed "in principle" to participate in a U.S.- and Russian-sponsored peace...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The State Department's decade-long effort to find a new home for a controversial Iranian opposition group has ground to a...
By Ken Dilanian and Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Reining back the aggressive counter-terrorism strategy he has embraced for five years, President Obama declared clear,...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Wrapping up his fourth Holy Land trip in three months, Secretary of State John F. Kerry voiced optimism Thursday that...
By Kathleen Hennessey and Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — At times defensive, solemn, lawyerly and personal, President Obama on Thursday offered a rare glimpse of the burden...
By Ken Dilanian and Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — As bystanders watched in horror, a man was hacked to death in broad daylight on a London street Wednesday and two suspects...
By Nabih Bulos and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
AMMAN, Jordan — Recent battlefield advances by the Syrian military against U.S.-backed rebels are "very temporary" and do not signal...
By Ramin Mostaghim and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday denounced as unjust the supervisory electoral body's disqualification of...
By Ramin Mostaghim and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — In a highly anticipated decision likely to spark controversy, Iran's supervisory electoral body on Tuesday disqualified two...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The military onslaught this week against the strategic Syrian town of Qusair has dramatized a surprising combat resilience...
By Aziz Alwan and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday amid the worst wave of violence in the country since U.S. troops...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Syrian forces launched a large-scale assault Sunday on the city of Qusair, a rebel stronghold near the Lebanese border, in...
By Ingy Hassieb, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip remained closed Sunday as the families and colleagues of seven Egyptian soldiers who were...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
MALEH, West Bank — In remote Palestinian villages of the northern Jordan Valley, children read by gas lamp, and water must be...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad has expressed skepticism that a planned U.S.-Russian peace conference could help stop the...
By Raja Abdulrahim, Los Angeles Times
MARAAT NUMAN, Syria — Each morning, after saluting the Syrian flag and before the warplanes take off, soldiers at army bases across...
By David S. Cloud, Paul Richter and Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday condemned Russia's delivery of advanced antiship missiles to Syria and its buildup...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and...
By Ramin Mostaghim and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — Iranians must wait until next week to find out who will be on the ballot in next month's presidential election, a key...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria even if proof emerges that Syrian forces...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. would be at war with Al Qaeda for 15 to 20 more...
By Raja Abdulrahim, Los Angeles Times
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — His phone doesn't ring and his charts are gloomy.
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama faces a fresh test Thursday of his determination to steer clear of the civil war in Syria when he...
By Glen Johnson and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Deadly weekend car bombings in a southern Turkish city have galvanized domestic opposition to the government's...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein made headlines recently by demanding a forceful U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — At least 42 people were reported dead Saturday in a pair of car bombings in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli, the latest...
By Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — The run-up to Iran's June presidential election took a dramatic turn Saturday with last-minute candidacy announcements by two...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Syria on Sunday rejected Turkish charges that Damascus was behind a pair of devastating car bomb attacks in southern Turkey...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — Less than a year and a half after the last U.S. troops left, Iraq's political leaders are openly debating the prospect of...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The new U.S.-Russia peace initiative for Syria will inevitably lead to the departure of President Bashar Assad, Secretary...
By Kim Murphy
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide...
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