The Jerusalem municipality is due to act on Wednesday on requests to construct hundreds of new homes for Israelis in areas that Israel captured in 1967 and annexed to the city, drawing fresh criticism from the United States that settlement activity puts Middle East peace-making at risk....

(The Independent)- The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he has uncovered evidence that US-led coalition forces have helped support terrorists in Syria – including Isis. American-led forces have been working alongside Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad but have...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Tuesday that they needed three months to completely eliminate Daesh from Iraq.  “Iraqi forces are advancing in the city of Mosul and there are no foreigners fighting with our forces in the city,” Abadi said at a press conference held in...

Gunmen have kidnapped an Iraqi female journalist after posing as members of the security forces and bursting into her home in Baghdad, authorities said Tuesday. Afrah Shawqi Hammudi was abducted Monday at around 10:00 pm (1900 GMT) from her home in a southern neighborhood of the capital,...