BRUSSELS (AFP) - The EU will appeal a December court decision ordering the removal of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from its terror blacklist, a spokesman said on Monday. Foreign ministers from the 28 member states decided at a meeting on Monday "to appeal the judgement...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Saturday that his country will provide humanitarian and military aid to Middle East countries to the tune of $2.5 billion in the coming phase. "This aid will be directed to improve infrastructure and military fields," Abe remarked...

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...