The United States is doubling down on efforts to pressure Iraq into distancing itself from Iran—a nation with which it shares ...

JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli official says the government is working with allies in a renewed push to win the freedom of an Israeli-Russian researcher who is believed to have been kidnapped in Iraq ...

BEIRUT — After Israeli strikes landed near the hotel where he was staying in the Iranian province of Qom, Aimal Hussein desperately wanted to return home. But the 55-year-old Afghan businessman couldn ...