U.S. President Donald Trump, welcoming Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the White House on Tuesday, said a lot of progress had been made with Egypt in terms of terrorism. Trump, with Sisi at his side, also told reporters that the two had important things to discuss about military...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he hoped that Israel's parliamentary elections Tuesday could help bring peace. Rightwing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was facing a close battle with centrist Benny Gantz in the polls. Without supporting a particular candidate, Abbas told...

Turkey's president said Monday that Turkey and Russia both want to eliminate terrorists from Idlib, a region in northwestern Syria near Turkish borders. "Ankara will never allow [the presence of] an entity that poses a threat to Turkish and Syrian territorial integrity," Recep Tayyip...

President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US had designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a "foreign terrorist organisation" as part of efforts to increase international pressure on the country. The US has never before used the "terrorist" designation for a foreign government...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday hosted Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks focusing on the situation in Syria, the sale of advanced Russian missiles to Turkey and other economic deals. Erdogan's visit to Russia, his third this year, underlined increasingly close...

Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Shtayyeh will announce the make-up of his new government in the coming days, Palestinian officials said Monday. Shtayyeh has until April 14 to form a new government which is expected to exclude all supporters of Hamas, longtime rival to the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has listed conditions to accept a U.S. back-channel peace plan known as "deal of the century", in a move seen by analysts as aiming to court voters ahead of Tuesday's general election. In an interview with Israel Hayom newspaper, Netanyahu, the...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he planned to discuss a possible Turkish military operation in Syria when he visits Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin on Monday, Russia’s RIA news agency reported. Erdogan has vowed to crush U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters east of the...

The family of Palestinian protester Ahed Tamimi says her younger brother has been arrested in their home in the occupied West Bank. Their father, Bassem Tamimi, says soldiers broke in early Monday and arrested 15-year-old Mohammad. He says Mohammad broke his arm over the weekend running...

The Israeli military will impose a full closure of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip during Tuesday's general election. "According to the security situation evaluation and directives of the political level, total closure will be imposed in the areas of the West Bank and the...

The Trump administration is preparing to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard a "foreign terrorist organization," an unprecedented move against a national armed force that could have widespread implications for U.S. personnel and policy in the Middle East and elsewhere. Officials informed...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Sunday decried recent U.S. recognition of the Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem and Syrian Golan Heights.   "We condemn the illegitimate U.S. decisions regarding the Golan and Jerusalem," Lavrov said during a joint news conference with his...

Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons staged a hunger strike on Sunday in protest of restrictions by prison authorities.    Palestinian inmates from Hamas group refused the morning meals, according to Israeli Channel 13.   The Palestinian Prisoner Society...

President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party will ask Turkey’s top electoral board for a recount of all votes cast in local elections in Istanbul, a senior party official said on Sunday. Initial results from the March 31 election gave a narrow victory to the opposition Republican People’s Party...

Israel's leader will face a "real problem" if he follows through with his election campaign promise to annex Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Palestinian foreign minister said Sunday. Riyad al-Maliki told The Associated Press on the sidelines of the World Economic...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Saturday to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins the upcoming general election. His comments come just days before the closely-fought April 9 poll and could be seen as an appeal to rightwing voters, who do not believe in...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he made the controversial decision to recognize Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights after getting a quick history lesson during a conversation on a different subject. Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition gathering in Las Vegas,...

Homes make a city. More than buildings, roads, schools, markets, hospitals and shops, it’s homes and the people who live in them that create the life of a place. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria conquered Raqqa, which it named its first capital, and eventually the Iraqi city of Mosul, where...

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned Ayman Alloush, Syria’s charge d'affaires in Amman, to demand the release of Jordanian nationals who it says have been unjustly detained by the Syrian authorities. “The Foreign Ministry is calling on the Syrian regime to immediately release...

In a joint operation with Russian forces, Israel recovered the remains of Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel, a Brooklyn-born Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier missing in action in Lebanon for almost 37 years. Baumel was declared missing in action in June 1982 during the first week of the...