More than 60 percent of sorties against ISIS in Iraq are carried out by the nation's air forces and about 40 percent by the U.S.-led coalition, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said Saturday. Iraq's army last month scored its first success against ISIS when it recaptured, with air support from...

Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian men who tried to stab soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Israeli military said, part of a wave of violence now in its fourth month. The soldiers were not injured in the confrontation at Bekaot checkpoint in the...

An attempted attack by Islamic State on a military base in northern Iraq shows Turkey's decision to deploy troops there was justified, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, suggesting Russia was stirring up a row over the issue. But Iraq's military later denied that the...

Turkish police detained senior local officials from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on Friday in a raid on one of its Istanbul offices, party officials said, days after President Tayyip Erdogan said he backed legal action against its members. Riot police and special...