Hundreds of Iraqis staged an open sit-in on Sunday to protest the collapse of services in the eastern part of the capital.   “We have come out today to protest years of deliberate government negligence,” Jabbar Latif, an elder from the Shia-majority al-Fadhiliya district in...

The EU's diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini called Saturday for an independent investigation into the use of live ammunition by Israel's military following clashes in Gaza that left 16 Palestinians dead. "The EU mourns the loss of life. Our thoughts are with the families of the...

Three-fourths of Jerusalem’s historic Al-Aqsa Mosque was built by the Ottoman Empire, said a Palestinian scholar on Saturday. "Al-Aqsa is an issue which concerns the whole Muslim community. Today we see Turkey leading this community," Nawaf Takruri, head of the Council of Palestinian...

Israeli troops fired warning shots towards Palestinian youths gathered at the Gaza-Israel border Saturday, wounding 13 people, health officials said. Tensions remained high in the area a day after deadly violence broke out in one of the biggest Palestinian demonstrations there in years....