Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he hoped that Israel's parliamentary elections Tuesday could help bring peace. Rightwing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was facing a close battle with centrist Benny Gantz in the polls. Without supporting a particular candidate, Abbas told...

President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US had designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a "foreign terrorist organisation" as part of efforts to increase international pressure on the country. The US has never before used the "terrorist" designation for a foreign government...

Turkey's president said Monday that Turkey and Russia both want to eliminate terrorists from Idlib, a region in northwestern Syria near Turkish borders. "Ankara will never allow [the presence of] an entity that poses a threat to Turkish and Syrian territorial integrity," Recep Tayyip...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday hosted Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks focusing on the situation in Syria, the sale of advanced Russian missiles to Turkey and other economic deals. Erdogan's visit to Russia, his third this year, underlined increasingly close...