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Israel PM vows national service ban for NGO over UN row

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to bar national service volunteers from joining human rights group B'Tselem after the organization angered him with their testimony at the U.N. last week. Netanyahu said in a Facebook post on Saturday he planned to change the national...

Saudi Arabia reassigns ambassador to Iraq after controversy

 Saudi Arabia says it has reassigned its ambassador to Iraq, months after he claimed that Iranian-backed Shiite militias were plotting to assassinate him. A royal decree issued early Sunday from King Salman announced Thamer al-Sabhan would be a minister of state for the Gulf region....

Turkey's Erdogan says Iraq cannot handle Mosul assault alone

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Iraq could not deal alone with driving Islamic State from the city of Mosul and that the presence of Turkish forces in a nearby military camp was an insurance against attacks on Turkey. Turkey has been locked in a row with Iraq's central...