Israeli police arrested three Turkish citizens who tried to performed Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque, according to eyewitness accounts.   “Earlier today, Israeli police banned a number of Turkish pilgrims from entering the Al-Aqsa mosque compound,” an...

Oil prices on Friday dipped away from some of their highest levels since 2015, weighed down by rising U.S. output and the expected January re-opening of the Forties pipeline in the North Sea. Despite this, markets remained well supported by ongoing supply cuts led by the Organization of...

When Rosa, now 14, asked her Daesh (ISIS) captors about her younger sisters Bushra, 12, and Suhayla, 7, she was told they had been killed for misbehaving. “At that point, I didn’t care about anything anymore. Even if I died,” she said. “I never thought I’d see them again.”...

A senior leader in Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas warned Thursday of the potential collapse of a reconciliation agreement made with political rivals Fatah. "The reconciliation is collapsing and everyone must intervene to save it," Yahya Sinwar, the Gaza head of Hamas, told a...