Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he had ordered the military to keep up "massive strikes" in response to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, as an escalation entered its second day. "I instructed the [military] this morning to continue its massive strikes on terror...

Washington is considering blacklisting the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation, but experts warn the move would risk radicalising its members and further destabilising the Arab world. A grassroots Islamist movement with affiliates in several countries including Turkey's ruling...

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for the opposition's local election victory in Istanbul to be declared invalid and the vote re-run, increasing the pressure on the country's electoral authorities. "Clearly, there were irregularities and corruption," Erdogan said in...

The Palestinian movements of Hamas and Fatah on Saturday slammed recent Israeli offensives on the blockaded Gaza strip since Friday which have martyred five Palestinians and left dozens wounded. Hamas on Saturday said the Palestinian resistance will not allow the Israeli occupation to...