Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the United States Monday of turning the Gulf region into a "matchbox ready to ignite," according to Al Jazeera television. Oil tanker traffic passing through the Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz has become the focus of a U.S.-Iranian...

A Palestinian who shot at Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border Sunday was killed when troops returned fire, the army and Hamas' Health Ministry said, in the third such incident in recent days. Israel's army said in a statement that the Palestinian shot toward troops, who returned...

The U.S. military says a U.S. service member has died during a combat mission with Iraqi security forces in Iraq's north. The statement by the U.S Central Command said the service member died Saturday in Iraq's northern Nineveh province. The service member was advising and accompanying...

Iran's supreme leader called on all Muslims to support the Palestinian people in their opposition to the Trump administration's "deal of the century" Middle East peace plan. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a letter Saturday marking the Islamic hajj pilgrimage, said the still-unreleased U.S. plan...