More than 60 percent of sorties against ISIS in Iraq are carried out by the nation's air forces and about 40 percent by the U.S.-led coalition, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said Saturday. Iraq's army last month scored its first success against ISIS when it recaptured, with air support from...

The United Nations' special envoy for Yemen has suggested Geneva as a location for holding peace talks due to restart this month on ending conflict in the war-torn country, Saba news agency reported late on Friday. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed made the suggestion in the Saudi Arabian capital...

Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian men who tried to stab soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Israeli military said, part of a wave of violence now in its fourth month. The soldiers were not injured in the confrontation at Bekaot checkpoint in the...

An attempted attack by Islamic State on a military base in northern Iraq shows Turkey's decision to deploy troops there was justified, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, suggesting Russia was stirring up a row over the issue. But Iraq's military later denied that the...