Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday he hoped a U.S. peace initiative would work and praised President Donald Trump for taking a fresh approach to bringing the Israelis and Palestinians back to negotiations. For at least two decades, the goal of U.S.-led diplomacy has...

A Madrid judge has ordered that eight former Catalan ministers be remanded in custody on Thursday over last week's vote for independence in the Catalan parliament.  One of the ex-ministers was granted bail. Of the 14 former members of the cabinet facing charges of...

GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian militant group said on Friday that five of its members had been killed earlier this week when Israel blew up a cross-border tunnel being dug by militants from the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the strike to 12. Neither side seemed eager to seek...

(Reuters) - Iraqi forces have entered al-Qaim, one of the last remaining territories in the country still held by Islamic State militants, the Joint Operations Command said on Friday. Units from the Iraqi army, Counter-Terrorism Services, Sunni tribal and Iranian-backed Popular...