Iran's intelligence ministry said Monday it had arrested 11 "economic disruptors" who misappropriated some $400 million earmarked for essential goods and smuggled the money out of the country. Authorities have been cracking down on those seeking to exploit the collapsing rial, which has...

An Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian to 18 years imprisonment Monday for stabbing to death a British woman in occupied Jerusalem last year, under a plea bargain acknowledging he is mentally ill. Jamil Tamimi, 59, killed 21-year-old exchange student Hannah Bladon on a tram as she was...

Syrian regime's tate news agency says President Bashar Assad has authorized Iraqi forces to attack Daesh (ISIS) inside Syria without waiting for permission from authorities in Damascus. Sunday's announcement highlights the close relations between the two neighboring Arab countries. On...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro told him that it was a matter of "when, not if" he moves his country's embassy in Israel to occupied Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. The far-right Bolsonaro, who takes office Tuesday and is...