Bahraini officials announced on Saturday that they were charging 23 people, most of them activists from the Shiite majority, with coordinating a violent campaign to overthrow the minority Sunni government. Prosecutors charged Abduljalil al-Singace,...

Lebanon’s parliament has, after long delay, passed a law which allows Palestinian refugees to work legally. There are an estimated 400,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon and, given its delicate sectarian balance, their status is a sensitive...

A clash between rival Palestinian groups in the Ain al-Helweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon has left at least one person dead, officials said. The victim of the shooting on Monday was a civilian woman, while a member of the Fatah faction, which is...