President Donald Trump will leave on his first trip abroad as the U.S. leader next Friday, stopping in Saudi Arabia, Israel and Italy in a bid to unite Muslims, Jews and Christians behind an effort to shun terrorism, the White House said on Friday. National security adviser H.R. McMaster...

( The Guardian )- The Turkish president will seek to persuade Donald Trump to reverse his “mistaken and shortsighted” plan to arm Kurdish forces in Syria, announced as part of an American attempt to crush Islamic State’s final stronghold in Raqqa. US officials this week announced a...

 Iran's six presidential candidates exchanged barbs in their final debate on Friday, accusing each other of corruption and economic mismanagement a week ahead of the election. Seeking a second four-year term, moderate President Hassan Rouhani has been on the offensive all week, framing...

 A Palestinian youth was shot dead during clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said. The man was shot during the protests which are held weekly near the village of Nabi Saleh, north of Ramallah, and later died in a nearby...