ISTANBUL (Reuters)- A Turkish penal court ordered the release of a journalist jailed over alleged ties to a failed coup, the private broadcaster CNN Turk reported on Friday. Sahin Alpay, a journalist in the now defunct Zaman daily, is to be released under judicial control and...

A Palestinian motorist killed two Israelis and injured at least one other person in the occupied West Bank Friday in what witnesses described as a deliberate ramming attack but may have been an accident, Israel's Army Radio said. The incident took place near the Jewish settlement of...

  Egyptians abroad began voting Friday, ten days before polls open at home in a presidential election that President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is effectively guaranteed to win, but in which turnout could provide an indication of his popularity. The former army chief's only challenger,...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP)- Iraq's Kurdish region has commemorated the 30th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's 1988 gas attack in the northeastern Kurdish town of Halabja that killed 5,000 people. Kurdish officials delivered speeches to a crowd of hundreds gathered for the ceremony at a stadium in...