Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called for US President Donald Trump to make good on his campaign pledge to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Departing from a long-standing US position, Trump promised he would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital...

Germany made mistakes with an open-door policy that saw more than a million migrants enter Germany over the past two years, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble acknowledged on Sunday, but he said Berlin was trying to learn from those missteps. "We have tried to improve what got away from us...

Iraq's Popular Mobilization on Sunday called on the Iraqi government to ban U.S. nationals from entering Iraq and to expel those who are already in the country, in a reaction to the new U.S. travel curbs on Iraqis. Popular Mobilization is mainly a coalition of Shiite paramilitary groups...

A Palestinian was shot dead Sunday and five others were wounded by Israeli soldiers at the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medical sources said. The person who was killed at the camp located in the northern West Bank was identified as 19-year-old Mohammed Abu Khalifa, the...

 Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday that US President Donald Trump's decision to ban arrivals from seven Muslim majority countries was "a great gift to extremists". "#MuslimBan will be recorded in history as a great gift to extremists and their supporters," Zarif...

(Al-Jazeera)- US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart have made a "significant start" in fixing their countries' relationship, while agreeing to cooperate in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, the White House said following an hour-long phone call. The two...

Helicopter-born commandoes, believed to be Americans, launched a raid in southern Yemen at dawn on Sunday that killed several people, including three al Qaeda suspects, residents told Reuters. The gunbattle in the rural Yakla district of al-Bayda province killed a senior leader in Yemen's...

A boat carrying 31 people, including 28 Chinese tourists, has gone missing in the waters off Borneo island, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said Sunday. "The owner of the boat reported it missing on Saturday evening and we have begun a search and rescue mission," Awil Kamsari, a...

An arrest warrant against the former governor of Mosul has been reissued by the Iraqi government. Atheel al-Nujaifi, commander of the Nineveh Guard militia, was first charged in October 2015 with allegedly spying for the Turkish military. "[An] arrest warrant has been issued against...

(The Guardian)- On Saturday, Mohamed Muezeb, a 47-year-old convenience store owner from Ridgewood, Queens, woke up to a voicemail from his 17-year-old daughter, Sawsan. She was stranded at Hamad International airport in Qatar, and she was sobbing. A day after Donald Trump signed an executive...

The United States has accepted for resettlement just under 2,200 refugees from Syria since the conflict began in 2011. The vast majority arrived within the last year. They are now arriving at the rate of 45 a week. Though it’s picking up pace, the rate is still far short of what will be needed...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed those fleeing war and persecution on Saturday even as Canadian airlines said they would turn back U.S.-bound passengers to comply with an immigration ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries. In pointed tweets a day after U.S. President Donald...

(Wall Street Journal)- Citizens of the seven countries identified by President Donald Trump for a 90-day visa ban who hold dual nationality also will be barred from entering the United States, the U.S. State Department said in a statement Saturday. In a statement that the State...

Liverpool fell to a third home defeat in eight days as they exited the FA Cup in a humbling 2-1 loss to second-tier Wolverhampton Wanderers at Anfield Saturday. First-half goals from defender Richard Stearman, his first for the Midlands club in nearly three years, and Andreas Weimann saw...

Pro-immigration lawyers in New York City sued Saturday to stall a travel ban enacted by President Donald Trump after two Iraqis were detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport and denied entry into the country despite having legal visas. Legal teams from several immigration groups...

(Wall Street Journal)-  Jordan’s King Abdullah II is scheduled to arrive in Washington on Monday and could mark the first Arab leader to meet with President Donald Trump, just days after he signed an executive order that suspended the U.S. refugee program and blocked people from Iraq, Syria...

Turkey and the United Kingdom plan to sign a free trade deal once Britain leaves the European Union, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday. Yildirim made the comment in a joint news conference with UK Prime Minister Theresa May, who was visiting Ankara after a trip to the...

(The Independent)- The World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to cut food rations to 1.4 million people because the world’s richest countries have delayed paying the organisation.  The food rations of 1.4 million Iraqis, displaced in the war against Isis, had to be halved this month...

President Donald Trump attacked two major U.S. newspapers in a Twitter blast on a busy Saturday when he was scheduled to speak with five world leaders, including Russia's Vladimir Putin. Trump criticized The New York Times and The Washington Post as being dishonest in a series of tweets that...

Five Iraqi passengers and one Yemeni were barred from boarding an EgyptAir flight from Cairo to New York on Saturday after President Donald Trump halted the entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, sources at Cairo airport said. The passengers, arriving in transit to Cairo...