Israel named a new ambassador to Jordan on Thursday, the foreign ministry announced, bringing to an end a months-long spat sparked by a deadly shooting. The foreign ministry named Amir Weissbrod as the new ambassador, the first since the incident at the Israeli embassy in Amman...

The United Nations launched an appeal Wednesday for $17 million to rebuild essential health facilities for children in Iraq after a devastating three-year battle to expel Daesh (ISIS). The U.N. children's fund, UNICEF, said next week's reconstruction conference for Iraq to be staged in...

A Turkish court Wednesday sentenced 64 military personnel to life in prison for involvement in a failed military coup in July 2016, state-run Anadolu news agency said. One hundred other defendants were acquitted, reports said. The indictment said leaders of the coup had flown...

Israeli forces started construction Wednesday on a controversial wall along the south Lebanon border, Al-Manar TV reported. "The Israeli army has begun construction on the cement wall in Ras Naqqoura," the television reported.