A Pakistani charity that the United States accuses of being a front for anti-India militant group that staged the 2008 Mumbai attacks has entered politics by forming a new party, charity officials said Monday. The new Milli Muslim League party will follow the ideology of Jamaat-ud-Dawa...

An Israeli military court has refused to postpone the imprisonment of a soldier sentenced to 18 months for killing a wounded Palestinian and he will be jailed this week, the army said Monday. Elor Azaria had applied on Sunday for a delay to his prison term. "His request was rejected and...

The Iraqi army will remain responsible for security in the northern city of Mosul until local police forces restore their pre-Daesh capabilities, a military spokesman said Monday. “There are no plans to withdraw military units from newly recaptured Mosul; it’s still too early for...

Jordan's King Abdullah II began a rare visit to the occupied West Bank to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Monday, amid shared tensions with Israel over a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site. In his first visit to Abbas's headquarters in Ramallah in five years, Abdullah was welcomed on...