Israeli forces detained three Palestinians near the security fence with the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli military on Saturday.  In a statement, the army said the three men had sneaked the fence into Israeli territory.  It said one Palestinians had a knife, but without...

 Syrian Kurds on Saturday repatriated 25 women and children from Iraq's Yazidi minority after freeing them during the final push against Daesh (ISIS), a local official said. The U.S.-backed fighters say they rescued some 300 Yazidi women and children during the fight to take the...

A Palestinian teen was shot dead by the Israeli army during renewed protests on the Israel-Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said. A ministry spokesperson said Maysara Abu Shaloof, 15, was "shot in the stomach by the [Israeli] occupation east of...

Burning American and Israeli flags, Iranians rallied after Friday prayers against the U.S.'s decision to designate the country's powerful Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organization. Thousands of worshipers came out of the mosques chanting traditional anti-U.S. slogans at...

An aid ship belonging to a German humanitarian group, is still stranded in the Mediterranean and denied safe port from, the organization’s spokeswoman said on Thursday. Denied docking rights from Malta, the Alan Kurdi -- named after a young Syrian boy drowned while trying to make it to...

 Iraq's elite counter-terrorism force targeted Daesh (ISIS) holdouts Thursday in the northern region of Hamreen, including a media center, more than a year after the country declared Daesh vanquished. Although they no longer hold territory, Daesh sleeper cells were believed to be...

Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by frustration with living standards and an elite perceived as corrupt, that helped push veteran Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and now Sudan?s Omar al-Bashir from power. While recent events...

The Israeli army rounded up 19 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to a military statement released Thursday. In a statement, the army said that the individuals had been detained for “suspected involvement in popular hostile activities”....

They trekked through the Sahara in hope of crossing the Mediterranean to a better life in Europe - but instead ended up in squalid detention centers and are now engulfed by war. Thousands of African and Syrian migrants and refugees are trapped in Tripoli as a battle for the city draws...

Akram Kanaan looked toward an Israeli military position on a snow-capped mountain that overlooks the village of Chebaa in southern Lebanon, pointing toward the scenic area captured by Israel more than five decades ago. No matter how long it takes, he says, it will eventually return to Lebanon's...

Iraq has offered to put on trial hundreds of accused foreign jihadists in Baghdad in exchange for millions of dollars, potentially solving a legal conundrum for Western governments but sparking rights concerns. Western countries have been rocked by fierce public debate over whether to...

With the blast finally walls gone, some 16 years after the U.S.-led invasion, life in the Iraqi capital Baghdad is starting to look like any normal bustling city. Families and friends hang out in cafes and shopping malls, people hold birthday parties in public and traders ply their wares...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined on Wednesday to publicly say the Trump administration still backs a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. “We are now working with many parties to share what our vision (is) as to how to solve this problem,”...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah raised the prospect of retaliation by Iran and its allies over U.S. sanctions, saying on Wednesday that all options were on the table were Washington to take steps that “threaten our nation”. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the heavily armed Iranian-backed Shi’ite...

German police on Wednesday raided offices belonging to Islamic organizations suspected of financing the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which is on the European Union’s terrorism blacklist, the interior ministry said. The ministry said the main targets of the raids were WorldWide...

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman by phone on Tuesday, discussing Riyadh’s role in Middle East stability, maintaining pressure on Iran and the importance of human rights issues, the White House said. Washington’s Middle East ally faces...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said electoral authorities should annul Istanbul’s local elections due to irregularities, notably over the appointment of ballot box officials, the pro-government Sabah newspaper reported on Wednesday. Initial results show the main opposition Republican...

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday that Washington’s decision to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group “could have negative repercussions on Iraq and the region”. “Iraq tried to stop the decision,” Abdul Mahdi told reporters during his weekly news...

The number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike reached 400 Tuesday, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club NGO said, but an Israeli official disputed the figure. In a statement the NGO said the hunger strike, which began Monday, had grown rapidly, with 250 prisoners joining...

Iran said on Tuesday it would press ahead with the launch of three satellites into orbit this year despite a U.S. move to curb Tehran’s ballistic missile program which Washington says has been advanced by the satellite activity. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would name...