An Iraqi Turkmen Front’s (ITF) candidate in parliamentary polls survived a suicide car bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a police official said on Sunday. The incident took place in front of a used car showroom in Hadra district, from where the parliament candidate...

ISTANBUL (AP)- An American pastor imprisoned in Turkey is going on trial for alleged terror ties and spying in a case that has increased tensions between Washington and Ankara. Andrew Craig Brunson, an evangelical pastor from North Carolina, is facing 35 years in prison on charges of...

 Israel's army said Sunday it had destroyed a Hamas tunnel crossing from the Gaza Strip into its territory after more than two weeks of tension along the border of the Palestinian enclave. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said it was the longest and deepest Gazan tunnel...

Israeli forces detained a Hamas leader in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh on Sunday, according to local residents.   Israeli soldiers raided and searched the house of Jamal al-Taweel in Umm al-Sharayit neighborhood before taking him into custody, the residents said.  ...