The head of Palestinian Islamic courts on Sunday told judges not to grant divorces over Ramadan, fearing the month-long fast could spark rash words that would be regretted later. Judge Mahmud Habash said he based his ruling on "the experience of previous years" when he found that the...

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on Saturday ended a 40-day hunger strike over conditions in Israeli jails, the Israel Prison Service and a Palestinian official said. About 1,100 inmates had initially taken part in one of the largest such hunger strikes, which began on April 17. It raised...

Two Iraqi military officers say the advance of troops has slowed in the last push to drive ISIS militants from remaining pockets of Mosul. The officers, who spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, say ISIS militants have deployed snipers, suicide car bombers and...

Turkey's military killed 13 members of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in air strikes in northern Iraq on Sunday, the military said in a statement. The warplanes struck seven PKK targets in the Avasin-Basyan region of northern Iraq, and killed militants believed to be preparing...