The United Nations raised "serious concerns" Tuesday about the trials of hundreds of alleged Daesh (ISIS) members in Iraq, some of whom merely prepared meals, offered medical services or even acted as human shields for the militant group. Iraq has processed thousands of cases under its...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel Wednesday to Moscow to present US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan to Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu, who is meeting Trump in Washington Tuesday where the initiative will be unveiled, will head to Moscow the next...

Iraqi authorities have ordered the closure for a month of Al-Dijla television, which has aired intensive coverage of anti-government protests in recent months, media and police sources told AFP Tuesday. "Interior ministry forces fully shut down Al-Dijla's offices in Baghdad last night and...

A motion for Iran to quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was introduced in parliament on Tuesday, the assembly’s news site ICANA reported, in a move that appears to raise the stakes in Tehran’s confrontation with the West. The report did not say when parliament might vote on...