Author: Kim Hjelmgaard and Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY

Ukraine launches investigation into claims U.S. Amb. Marie Yovanovitch was placed under surveillance by people linked to President Donald Trump.

Iraq has been at the center of an intensifying tug of war between Tehran and Washington.

Tehran takes new actions to erode its commitment to the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers and acceleratesits nuclear activities.

Iran will speed up enrichment of uranium and pull further out of the nuclear deal with world powers, Iranian officials said.

Israel’s conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secureda record fifth term after a neck-and-neck finish in parliamentary elections.

Trumpadministration callsIran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist group, the first time Washington has described a foreign military this way.

Their stories all share the same heart-wrenching core: an American gone missing in a foreign country, their families left feeling helpless

Saudi Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman spoke for the first timesince the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.