Israel's supreme court Thursday rejected an appeal by three members of a Jewish gang convicted of kidnapping, beating and burning alive a Palestinian teenager in 2014. The decision upholds life sentences for two of them and a 21-year jail term for the third over the chilling...

Turkey on Thursday said it planned to host in Istanbul a new three-way summit on Syria with the presidents of Russia and Iran aimed at reviving a drive to bring peace to the country. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to hold the summit in...

The US military launched air strikes on regime-backed troops Wednesday after as many as 500 attackers began what a US military official said appeared to be a coordinated assault on Syrian opposition forces accompanied by US advisers. The official said the strikes were in self-defence...

Turkey and Iran are violating international law through their actions in Syria, said France's foreign minister on Wednesday, demanding that all Iranian-backed militia, including Lebanon's Hizballah, pulls out of the country. Jean-Yves Le Drian, speaking on BFM television, added that...