Israeli police arrested three Turkish citizens who tried to performed Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque, according to eyewitness accounts.   “Earlier today, Israeli police banned a number of Turkish pilgrims from entering the Al-Aqsa mosque compound,” an...

When Rosa, now 14, asked her Daesh (ISIS) captors about her younger sisters Bushra, 12, and Suhayla, 7, she was told they had been killed for misbehaving. “At that point, I didn’t care about anything anymore. Even if I died,” she said. “I never thought I’d see them again.”...

A senior leader in Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas warned Thursday of the potential collapse of a reconciliation agreement made with political rivals Fatah. "The reconciliation is collapsing and everyone must intervene to save it," Yahya Sinwar, the Gaza head of Hamas, told a...

The Palestinian president welcomed Thursday a United Nations General Assembly resolution criticising the US government's controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. "This decision reaffirms once again that the just Palestinian cause enjoys the support of international...