Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday demanded a "total" ceasefire from Gaza's Hamas rulers in his first public comments on another deadly flare-up between the two sides. There have been efforts by U.N. officials and Egypt to secure a long-term truce between Israel and Hamas,...

Egyptian security forces have killed "terrorists" in a shootout in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, where Daesh (ISIS) is active, an interior ministry source said Sunday. The Egyptian army has since February been conducting a major operation focused on Sinai to wipe out jihadists from...

Thousands of protesters rallied in Tel Aviv Saturday against Israel's new law declaring it the nation-state of the Jewish people, legislation that has angered the country's Arab minority and drawn criticism abroad. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended the law, which says only Jews...

Iraq has stopped trading with Iran in the U.S. dollar after Washington imposed economic sanctions on Tehran, according to the country’s central bank on Saturday.   The Central Bank of Iraq has notified to all banks in the country that using dollars with Iranian banks has been...