Moderate Kurdish candidate Barham Saleh swept to the post of president of Iraq Tuesday evening in a parliamentary vote pitting Kurdish heavyweights against each other for the first time following an ill-fated independence referendum. Saleh routed his main rival Fuad Hussein with 219...

Germany will next year end its reconnaissance and air-to-air refueling missions that are part of U.S.-led operations against Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, the government decided Tuesday, a document seen by Reuters showed. Germany, whose Nazi past makes military action a sensitive...

Lebanon's foreign minister gathered ambassadors Monday near Beirut international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah movement had secret missile facilities there. "Today Lebanon is raising (its) voice by addressing all countries of the world... to...

Israel Sunday released a French-Palestinian lawyer held without charge for the past 13 months over unspecified allegations, his lawyer said. Salah Hamouri, 33, was freed at Jerusalem police headquarters after being brought from his cell in a prison in southern Israel's Negev desert....