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Hezbollah is being squeezed in Lebanon as Iran's economic crisis limits support, and the U.S. presses Beirut to force the group to disarm while Israel keeps bombarding Lebanon.

Iraq's port city of Basra is a hub of oil wealth but is poor and angry. Protests have continued for weeks over a lack of drinking water and an excess of political corruption — with some blaming Iran.

NPR visits villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border where Israel has continued demolitions and attacks despite a ceasefire last year.

One year after the Supreme Court ruled that cities are allowed to remove homeless encampments, Grants Pass — the Oregon city that gave name to the case — can't legally remove an encampment there.

Six months of war in Gaza have sent shock waves through the Arab world. Public anger is growing in Jordan and Lebanon, two countries that have peace treaties with Israel.

We look at the uptick in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon after and overnight Israeli strike in Beirut.

Amid obstacles in getting food to Gaza, a U.S. aid group tests new ideas for non-lethal ways of dropping aid.

A lack of liquidity is hampering Syria's economic recovery after years of corrupt dictatorship

Iraqi security forces swept out anti-government protesters occupying public squares in Baghdad and set fire to encampments after a powerful Shiite cleric removed his support for the protesters.

NPR makes an unprecedented visit to the desert camp full of Syrians who fled the regime and ISIS attacks nearly a decade ago. They were trapped against the border until the fall of the Syrian regime.