Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at the country's chief of police ahead of an expected announcement concerning a corruption probe into the long-standing leader. Police Chief Roni Alsheikh said on Wednesday that "powerful figures" had hired people to "sniff...

Iran rejected an accusation by Bahrain that it was involved in an oil pipeline bombing in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, accusing its rival of making "false claims". Bahrain said Wednesday that it had arrested four men suspected of attacking the Saudi Aramco pipeline on November 10,...

Israel named a new ambassador to Jordan on Thursday, the foreign ministry announced, bringing to an end a months-long spat sparked by a deadly shooting. The foreign ministry named Amir Weissbrod as the new ambassador, the first since the incident at the Israeli embassy in Amman...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia sold around $15 billion worth of weapons in 2017, maintaining a similar level of sales to the previous year, the country's agency responsible for military exports Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday. "In 2017 Rosoboronexport signed contracts worth approximately...

The United Nations launched an appeal Wednesday for $17 million to rebuild essential health facilities for children in Iraq after a devastating three-year battle to expel Daesh (ISIS). The U.N. children's fund, UNICEF, said next week's reconstruction conference for Iraq to be staged in...

The White House Wednesday warned Iran that it will be held responsible for the health of 81-year-old American citizen Baquer Namazi, who was recently sent back to prison after medical treatment. "He remains in urgent need of sustained medical care, and the United States government holds...

The leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said he was optimistic that he could persuade his party's members to back the coalition deal he sealed with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives Wednesday morning. Martin Schulz said he would step down as leader of the party after the...

The U.S. Justice Department announced one of its largest-ever takedowns of a global cyber crime ring Wednesday, saying it had indicted 36 people accused of trafficking in stolen identities and causing more than $530 million in losses to consumers. The cyber crime network, known as...

Bahraini authorities say police have arrested four men suspected of being behind a blast that ripped through a state-run oil pipeline in November. A statement by the Interior Ministry says two of those arrested received "intensive training" in Iranian Revolutionary Guard camps in...

A Turkish court Wednesday sentenced 64 military personnel to life in prison for involvement in a failed military coup in July 2016, state-run Anadolu news agency said. One hundred other defendants were acquitted, reports said. The indictment said leaders of the coup had flown...

Israeli forces started construction Wednesday on a controversial wall along the south Lebanon border, Al-Manar TV reported. "The Israeli army has begun construction on the cement wall in Ras Naqqoura," the television reported.

Egypt Wednesday warned Turkey against any infringement of its economic rights in the eastern Mediterranean under a maritime border demarcation agreement signed in 2013 with Cyprus that allows exploration for gas in the area. The discovery of the massive Zohr gas field in 2015 has...

Iraqi forces backed by the U.S.-led coalition began a major operation Wednesday against Daesh (ISIS) militants hiding out in a northeastern desert region, the military said. The army, rapid intervention forces and paramilitaries, in coordination with Kurdish fighters and with Iraqi and...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, will visit South Korea to attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics on Friday, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said on Wednesday. Pyongyang notified Seoul that Kim Yo Jong would be accompanying...

Iraqi authorities published a list of most wanted fugitives Tuesday headed by elusive Daesh (ISIS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his No. 2. It was the second list the Iraqi government had published this week of people wanted on suspicion of belonging to Daesh , Al-Qaeda or...

Fuel for emergency generators that keep Gaza’s hospitals and sanitation services operating will run out within 10 days, the United Nations said Tuesday in an appeal for immediate donor support. The shortage stems from a dispute between Gaza’s dominant Hamas and the West Bank-based...

Two Iraqi Shi'ite groups backed by Iran are demanding all U.S. forces leave Iraq, opposing plans by Baghdad and Washington to retain some in training and advisory roles. But Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told reporters U.S. forces were needed "to completely finish the job"...

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked eastern Taiwan on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring more than 100 others, according to Taiwan’s official Central News Agency (CNA).  According to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the quake’s epicenter was 22 kilometers (13 miles) northeast of...

Prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan was denied bail in France Tuesday, judicial sources said, four days after he was remanded in custody on charges of rape that have sown divisions in the Muslim community. Two Muslim women have accused Ramadan, a 55-year-old Oxford University...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday called on the government to strip Turkey's main medical association of the adjective "Turkish" in its name after it vehemently opposed the military operation in Syria. Erdogan accused members of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) of...