Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has cancelled a planned rally in Rotterdam, where he had been due to campaign in favor of a proposed new Turkish constitution that gives more powers to the country's president, Dutch news agency ANP reported on Wednesday. The news agency quoted from...

Israel's parliament gave preliminary approval Wednesday to two measures that would limit calls to prayers from mosques, including one prohibiting the use of loudspeakers at all hours, a parliament statement said. The second of the bills would ban loudspeakers between 11 pm and 7 am in urban...

Yemen's Al-Qaeda has detained two militants accused of being U.S. informants in a district targeted by multiple air raids over the past week, a tribal leader said Wednesday. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) arrested two of its operatives in Mawjan district in the southern Abyan...

Iraqi forces in west Mosul worked to clear bombs and searched for extremist fighters in recaptured areas Wednesday to set the stage for renewed offensive operations, officers said. Iraqi security forces launched a major operation to retake west Mosul -- ISIS' last major urban bastion in the...