Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called on the government on Friday to show "no tolerance" of any infringement of the country's sovereignty, after Turkey deployed heavily armed troops to northern Iraq. Sistani's spokesman, Sheikh Abdul Mehdi Karbala'i,...

A Palestinian driver attempted to ram his car into Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Friday and was shot dead, the Israeli military said. The attack occurred on the outskirts of Hebron, a large Palestinian city in the south of the West Bank. A campaign of...

By now, the news alerts are all too familiar: "Stabbing near Old City: Israeli wounded, attacker shot dead", read a recent bulletin. Another came by text message on Wednesday: "Stabbing attack: 2 wounded, one light, terrorist shot dead." Over the past 2-1/2 months, since a wave of violence by...

(as)- The France Football Federation has provisionally suspended Karim Benzema from the France national football team following his implication in a case of alleged blackmail against Les Bleus teammate Mathieu Valbuena. Benzema is being investigated by the French judiciary on suspicion of...