A total of 374 would-be candidates will be excluded from Iraq’s upcoming parliamentary polls due to previous associations with the now-defunct Baath Party, according to Iraq’s Justice and Accountability Commission. In a Monday statement, the commission said it had finished vetting...

Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are cooperating closely to secure their shared borders after the Daesh terrorist group’s three-year rampage across the region, Iraqi Interior Minister Qassim al-Araji has said. “The post-Daesh era requires us to firmly secure our borders,” al-Araji...

Scores of Jewish settlers on Tuesday forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to a Palestinian official.   “Some 260 Jewish extremists stormed the compound this morning,” Firas al-Dib, a spokesman for Jerusalem's Jordan-run...

The U.S. declined calls from the UN Security Council for an investigation into violence on the Israeli-Gaza border that left 18 Palestinians dead, a UN official said Monday. Speaking at a press conference at UN headquarters, Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, Permanent Representative of Peru to the...