JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was back in court for his corruption trial on Monday as the country's political parties were set to weigh in on whether he should form the next government after a closely divided election or step down to focus on his legal woes....

Jordan's deputy prime minister on Sunday said the king's half-brother, Prince Hamza, had liaised with foreign elements over a plot to destabilise the country and had been under investigation for some time. Ayman Safadi, who is also Jordan's foreign minister, told reporters that the plot...

A Syrian mother on Saturday joined a sit-in protest of families against the PKK terror group in southeastern Turkey to reunite with her daughter abducted by the terrorists eight years ago. Medine Erberkel, hailing from Syria, settled in Sanliurfa, a southeastern Turkish province bordering...

The former crown prince of Jordan says he has been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics. In a video passed to the BBC by his lawyer, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the half-brother of King Abdullah, accuses the country's leaders of corruption, incompetence and...