A Palestinian woman tried to stab Israeli guards at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Wednesday, Israeli police said, with Palestinian officials reporting she was shot dead. "At the security checkpoint at Zaim a female suspect attempted to stab security guards that were on...

More than ninety-nine and a half percent of territory captured by the Daesh terrorist group in Syria has been returned to the Syrian people, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said Tuesday. "Within a couple weeks it will be a hundred percent," Shanahan told reporters at the...

France has denied allegations that it asked Israel to refrain from attacking Lebanon before a new cabinet is unveiled in Beirut, according to a Tuesday statement released by France’s embassy in Lebanon. Earlier, media outlets had quoted French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian as saying...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Tuesday hailed an economic deal with key ally Iran as a bulwark against what he described as an "economic war" waged by the West. Assad spoke the day after the allies signed a string of agreements including a long-term "economic cooperation" deal ahead of...