Around 180,000 Muslims prayed at east Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound Friday, the first in the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, a body responsible for the site said. The figure from the Waqf organisation is 50 percent higher than last year, when around 120,000 people attended the first...

Nearly half of the vulture population in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights have died of apparent poisoning, Israel's Nature and Parks Authority Friday, in a new blow to an already decimated breed. Eight out of around 20 griffon vultures left in the area were found dead on Friday, the...

A deputy head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard said that Tehran will not hold talks with its arch enemy the United States and that Washington "will not dare launch military action against us", the semi-official news agency Tasnim reported Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday urged...

Israel lifted a ban on Friday on Palestinian fishing boats putting to sea off Gaza, an Israeli military body said, ending a measure imposed during a deadly flare-up of violence earlier this month. The measure is seen as a first step in implementing a fragile truce meant to avert a new...