Nadeen Ebrahim

(CNN) — Hezbollah has named Shiite cleric Naim Qassem as leader, over a month after his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Nadeen Ebrahim and Salma Arafa CNN I srael's parliament has voted to ban a United Nations agency that has provided essential

Israel expects its “Iron Beam” laser defense system to be operational within one year, saying it will bring “a new era of warfare” as it engages in a war of drones and missiles with Iran and its regional partners.

Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem (CNN) — If his first term in the White House is any indication, President-elect Donald Trump is likely to keep the Middle East high on his agenda.

If his first term in the White House is any indication, President-elect Donald Trump is likely to keep the Middle East high on his agenda.

(CNN) — The United Nations has accused Israel of “severe violations” of a 50-year-old agreement with Syria, saying it has engaged in “engineering groundwork activities” that encroach on a key buffer zone in the Golan Heights.

(CNN) — Iranian activist Kianoosh Sanjari, who died by suicide this week in protest at political imprisonments by the regime, was buried Friday in the capital Tehran.

CNN — Pope Francis has said that allegations of a genocide in Gaza should be “carefully investigated” marking some of his strongest criticism yet of Israel's war in the territory.

(CNN) — The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , former Defense Minister Yoav

Pope Francis has said that allegations of a genocide in Gaza should be “carefully investigated” marking some of his strongest criticism yet of Israel’s war with Hamas.