Middle East

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon resigned from what is widely considered Israel’s second-most powerful position, amid maneuvering by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shore up his coalition.

Police fired water cannons and rubber bullets Friday at protesters who scaled barriers to Baghdad’s heavily fortified International Zone, in the one of the largest demonstrations in the Iraqi capital in weeks.

A country deeply divided by five years of political and economic turmoil appeared united in grief for the fathers, mothers, children and young crew who perished in the EgyptAir crash.

Teasing a certain sensitive authoritarian with the President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition.

Turkey’s parliament has voted to rescind immunity for a quarter of the nation’s lawmakers in a step that will likely destabilize this key North Atlantic Treaty Organization member and fuel the simmering Kurdish insurgency.

Four-month-old Jouhaina Bettiche was perhaps the youngest passenger aboard the EgyptAir flight, joined by her 4-year-old brother and her parents on their way to Cairo.

Oil prices edged lower Friday but posted a second straight weekly gain, as traders continued to focus on supply disruptions.

Flight MS804 carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo went down in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday; search operations continued Friday.

In photos chosen by WSJ editors on Friday, protesters storm Baghdad’s Green Zone, children cool off during a heat wave in New Delhi, and more.

European interior ministers on Friday pressured Greece to speed up asylum procedures and send more Syrians back to Turkey.

While the European Union is considering granting visa-free travel to Turkey and other countries outside the bloc, it is also trying to tighten the rules should that happen.

The hunt for wreckage of the EgyptAir jetliner is likely to revive debate over measures airlines could take to ensure investigators obtain essential data more quickly in future accidents.

Libyan oil exports will flow again from a terminal that had been a subject of dispute between the groups vying for control of the country, raising new hope for the nation’s petroleum production.

Aaron David Miller: Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet changes may bring peace to his governing coalition. But the price will be continued and possibly greater tensions with the Palestinians, the U.S., and others.

Turkey’s political upheaval is stoking investor concern over the country’s economic stewardship, rattling markets a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s long-standing ally was tapped to become the country’s next prime minister.

The investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 is shaping up as another complex, multinational effort.

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Authorities continued their search for a second day for the EgyptAir plane that disappeared from radar, battling a lack of concrete evidence and conflicting reports to puzzle out what downed the plane.

Los Angeles International Airport boosted security measures Thursday, including stepped up police presence in the central terminal area, as a precautionary effort in the wake of EgyptAir Flight 804’s disappearance en route to Cairo from Paris.