An academic and former head of a research institute was Friday appointed as Seoul's new unification minister, the South's key point of contact on inter-Korean affairs. The appointment of Kim Yeon-chul comes days after the US and North Korea held a second much-anticipated summit in Vietnam,...

Thousands of young ultra-Orthodox Jews mobbed women seeking equal prayer rights at one of Judaism's holiest sites on Friday, leading police to escort them away from Jerusalem's Western Wall. The Women of the Wall group has for 30 years been demanding changes to rules at the site barring...

A total of 4,720 dead bodies have been pulled from the rubble of Iraq’s northern city of Mosul since Iraq’s three-year war with the Daesh terrorist group ended in late 2017, an Iraqi official said Thursday. “Of these, about 2,665 have been identified, while the rest remain...

A delegation of Egyptian intelligence officers arrived in the Gaza Strip on Thursday via the Beit Hanoun (Erez) border crossing. Delegation members are expected to meet with Hamas officials -- and leaders of other Palestinian factions -- to discuss a proposed ceasefire with Israel, a...