Angry protesters set fire to the house of the military commander of Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq on Sunday, according to a local police source.    "Hundreds of demonstrators burned the house of Jameel al-Shimmary, who was tasked with handling security in the province," the...

Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett has approved the construction of a new settlement in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron. In a statement, Bennet's office said the defense minister had ordered the relevant offices within the ministry to "inform the Hebron municipality that...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday denounced six new European members of a barter mechanism with Iran, saying it encouraged Tehran's repression of protests. "While the Iranian regime is killing its own people, European countries rush to support that very murderous regime," the...

 Pope Francis on Sunday criticized Iraq’s crackdown on anti-government protests, which have led to the deaths of more than 400 people since they erupted in Baghdad and other cities in October. “I am following the situation in Iraq with concern. It is with pain that I have learned...