The Israeli army has imposed a tight siege on the Palestinian village of Kubar near the West Bank city of Ramallah, eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency on Friday. According to witnesses, Israeli forces stormed the village and raided the home of Mohamed Yousef, a local resident who was shot...

An American military plane was able to enter North Korea Friday to pick up the remains of U.S. soldiers who fought during the Korean War. Marking the 65th anniversary of the 1950-53 conflict's armistice, the Air Force transport aircraft flew from South Korea early in the morning before...

A Palestinian teenage girl, who was shot by Israeli soldiers during anti-occupation rallies on Gaza Strip, will be able to walk again, her doctor said. Meryem Abu-Matar, 16, who lives in Gaza’s Rafah city, was brought to Istanbul for medical treatment. Since March, Abu-Matar has been...

For more than three years after graduation, Karar Alaa Abdel-Wahid tried to get a stable job in the Iraqi government and in the private sector - to no avail. He once was offered a job with the Oil Ministry in his energy-rich hometown of Basra, but it came with a hefty price: he would...