The World Health Organizations says laboratory tests completed after a shocking fish die-off in Iraq's Euphrates River show the water is contaminated with high levels of bacteria, heavy metals, and ammonia. Fishermen were stunned to find that hundreds of tons of carp had died suddenly...

Israeli forces have detained over 900 Palestinian children since the beginning of this year, according to a local NGO on Tuesday.   “A total of 270 children are still held in Israeli prisons,” the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement, which was released on the...

Khan al-Ahmar, an Arab village in East Jerusalem, will be demolished and its inhabitants evicted, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, according to local media reports. Netanyahu reportedly made the assertion at a Monday meeting of his right-wing Likud party, which leads...

Iran is still hopeful that its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers can be saved despite the withdrawal of the United States, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday. "There are some ambiguities on implementation of the EU's mechanism to protect trade with Iran from America's sanctions....