Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will call for an alternative to U.S.-mediated negotiations with Israel during a rare address to the United Nations Security Council, Palestinian officials said Monday. Addressing the council Tuesday for the first time since 2009, the longtime Palestinian...

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi court has sentenced a German teenager to six years in jail for membership of the Daesh (ISIS) group and illegal entry into the country, a judicial source said Monday. The source told AFP that the girl, aged 17, was Sunday handed a five-year term for belonging to Daesh...

Iran's Press TV is reporting that search and rescue teams have reached the site of the plane crash that authorities say killed all 65 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, went down on Sunday in foggy weather,...

An Iraqi court has sentenced a Turkish woman to death by hanging for joining Daesh (ISIS), a spokesman for the criminal court in Baghdad said in a statement Monday. Ten other women of various nationalities were sentenced to life in prison, he said. All the verdicts can be appealed....