Iraq’s firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday rejected a secret vote in parliament on the new cabinet lineup. “The people want to reform the system through an honest government with independent technocrats supervised by the prime minister-designate without pressure from...

Israeli forces rounded up 16 Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military on Wednesday. The individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities”, the army said in a statement, without elaborating on...

At least one Palestinian seriously injured in the head on Tuesday by Israeli army gunfire near the buffer zone between Gaza and Israel, according to the Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry. “A [Palestinian] citizen has been seriously injured in the head by occupation gunfire on the...

At least six people were killed and dozens injured in a car-bomb attack in northern Iraq on Tuesday, according to a local police officer. A car parked on a roadside exploded at a marketplace in al-Qayyarah, south of Mosul, Police Lieutenant Abdel-Qadir al-Jabouri told Anadolu Agency....