(Anadolu News Agency)-  ISIL launched a counter-attack on Thursday, resulting in it controlling two areas in the western Iraqi province of Anbar.  The areas are close to Baghdadi town, located around 13 miles west of Hit city in Anbar governorate....

French Senate has adopted a resolution calling on the government to recognize the state of Palestine. The draft resolution submitted by the Greens parliamentary group was adopted by 154 votes in favor to 146 votes against on Thursday. Although the...

Senior Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein was laid to rest on Thursday at a military funeral in Ramallah, one day after his death during the dispersal by Israeli troops of an anti-settlement protest in the West Bank. Thousands of mourners took part in the funeral, which...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Britain and Turkey will share more information on foreign fighters among the ranks of Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq to try to prevent them posing a threat when they return home, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday....