Pope Francis on Sunday urged world leaders to try again to bring peace to Libya and in Syria where millions of refugees and people displaced by conflict should be helped to return home. In his traditional Easter Sunday address to the faithful at the Vatican, where some 70,000 were gathered...

Iraq will host senior parliamentary officials from arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran on Saturday as Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi seeks to bolster his country’s nascent role as a mediator in the region. Delegations including the heads of parliament from Turkey, Kuwait, Syria and Jordan...

A Palestinian man was seriously injured by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, according to the health ministry. In a statement, the ministry said Israeli soldiers shot the man at the Zaatara military checkpoint, to south of Nablus in the northern West Bank. The...

Iraqi F-16 fighter jets conducted their first flight alongside the U.S.-led coalition against Daesh above the Iraqi-Syrian border, the Iraqi Air Force said early Saturday. The statement said the flight was part of a defensive mission. It added that it was aimed at increasing the...