A plane carrying returning peshmerga Kurdish forces departed from Turkey’s Sanliurfa Airport for Sulaymaniyah, instead of Erbil, in northern Iraq Saturday because of bad weather conditions. The plane was transporting the second batch of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga...

(Reuters) - The International Criminal Court has launched an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, opening a path to possible charges against Israelis or Palestinians. In a statement on Friday, prosecutors said they would examine "in full independence and...

  At least 43 people, including 40 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants were killed across the country Friday, security forces said. The U.S-led international coalition launched airstrikes on five alleged ISIL bases in eastern al-Baghdadi area in Anbar province...

(Reuters) - Arab foreign ministers on Thursday endorsed a Palestinian plan to resubmit a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council calling for  Israel  to withdraw from occupied territories by late 2017. The United States helped defeat a similar draft resolution in a...