A statement from Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for an attack on Iraqi troops outside Karbala that left one dead. Iraqi Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, spokesman for the Joint Military Command, says the suicide car bomb attack at a checkpoint outside the southern Iraqi city late Saturday...

A fighter jet has crash landed at Bahrain International Airport, disrupting flights to and from the island nation. Social media pictures of the crash showed the grey fighter jet's nose tipped into the air but largely intact. Airport officials did not respond to requests for comment...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that tension with Europe was due to European domestic politics and relations with Berlin would improve after Germany's parliamentary election in September. Relations between Europe and Turkey, a NATO member and a candidate for European Union...

Hezbollah and its allies are pressing the Lebanese state to normalize relations with President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, testing Lebanon's policy of "dissociation" from the Syrian conflict and igniting a political row. Calls for closer ties with the Syrian government, including...