Nikhil Lohade is the news editor for the Middle East and North Africa. He helps oversee The Wall Street Journal's coverage of a region that stretches from Iran to Morocco and Turkey. He is based in ...

The animosity between Jews, Persians/Iranians and Muslims has not always been so. In fact, had it not been for the latter, ...

Currently operating 43 hotels with over 8,250 keys across the UAE, Oman, KSA, Qatar, Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt, the group aims to grow its presence to 200 operatio ...

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

Deadly clashes between pro-government fighters and local Druze gunmen ignited on Tuesday, in part over a now-debunked audio clip of a Druze cleric allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Qosai, a 27 ...

Are we living through an economic apocalypse? Across the globe, we are witnessing an erosion of economic stability that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. Inflation, once considered a ...

The attack by the Islamic State (ISIS) on a military base of local forces in Puntland state on December 31 last year raised local ...

While the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have among the highest levels of per capita adoption of social media networks ...

Damian Paletta is The Wall Street Journal’s Washington coverage chief.

Somalia forces, he added, have made significant gains in the fight against Al-Shabaab, despite a series of setbacks in recent weeks. The government troops lost the strategic Adan Yabaal town within ...

The unidentified suspect is believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State militant group, according to Iraq's Supreme ...

Iraqi authorities reportedly arrested a suspected ISIS terrorist for inciting the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans, according to the country’s judiciary. After the U.S. asked Iraq for ...