Iraq's army and Shi'ite militia have launched a long-awaited offensive against Islamic State in Salahuddin province, a stronghold of the radical Islamist fighters north of Baghdad, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday. The ultra-radical fighters control several...

 The Israeli military said it had mobilized some 13,000 soldiers for an unannounced drill on Sunday in the occupied West Bank, in the first such exercise in three years. A terse statement said army chief Gadi Eisenkot had called a "surprise exercise in Central Command" -- the...

Palestinian movement  Hamas  on Sunday called on King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia to urge Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al  -Sisi  to halt what it described as "Egypt's hostile stances towards Hamas  and the Gaza Strip." "We urge King Salman of Saudi...

Hamas  on Sunday said that  Israel  will continue to be the "real enemy of the people in the region," in light of an Egyptian court labeling  Hamas  a "terrorist organization" a day earlier. "No matter how strong the alliance between  Israel  and the...