Iran is implementing its side of its nuclear deal with major powers, the U.N. atomic watchdog policing the pact reaffirmed on Thursday, two weeks after the latest wave of reimposed U.S. sanctions against Tehran took effect. President Donald Trump said in May he was pulling the United...

Egyptian authorities say police killed 12 militants when security forces stormed three deserted buildings used as militant hideouts in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula. An Interior Ministry statement Thursday said the militants were the first to open fire on the policemen as...

At least 114 irregular migrants have been held in two provinces of western Turkey, security sources said Thursday. In Turkey’s Aegean province of Izmir, gendarmerie teams rounded up 40 migrants trying to cross into Greece, including seven women and two children. They comprised...

Iran Wednesday praised European efforts to maintain business with Tehran despite U.S. sanctions, citing "constructive meetings" with British and French officials in Tehran this week on setting up a way to conduct non-dollar trade. Iranian Foreign Ministry officials voiced more hope for...

Iraqi forces have killed 15 Daesh (ISIS) militants inside a tunnel during a search operation in the northern Sunni-majority Salahuddin province, the military said Wednesday. Daesh, which once occupied a third of Iraq's territory, has been largely defeated in the country but has...

The World Health Organizations says laboratory tests completed after a shocking fish die-off in Iraq's Euphrates River show the water is contaminated with high levels of bacteria, heavy metals, and ammonia. Fishermen were stunned to find that hundreds of tons of carp had died suddenly...

Israeli forces have detained over 900 Palestinian children since the beginning of this year, according to a local NGO on Tuesday.   “A total of 270 children are still held in Israeli prisons,” the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement, which was released on the occasion...

Khan al-Ahmar, an Arab village in East Jerusalem, will be demolished and its inhabitants evicted, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, according to local media reports. Netanyahu reportedly made the assertion at a Monday meeting of his right-wing Likud party, which leads...

Iran is still hopeful that its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers can be saved despite the withdrawal of the United States, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday. "There are some ambiguities on implementation of the EU's mechanism to protect trade with Iran from America's sanctions....

Dozens of Palestinians suffered a temporary asphyxiation from teargas canisters fired by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to a local Palestinian official. Israeli forces used teargas bombs and rubber bullets to disperse Palestinians, who gathered to prevent...

Iraqi officials said five people were killed in a car bomb blast in the city of Tikrit Sunday, the latest security breach to rattle the country in recent weeks. Sixteen others were wounded in the blast that set fires on both sides of a commercial street in the heart of the city, according to...

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he would take on the defense minister portfolio, rejecting calls to dissolve his government even as early elections appeared increasingly likely. Netanyahu said heading to elections now, amid repeated violent confrontations...

The Palestinian government on Sunday decried incursions by Israeli settlers and government ministers into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. In a statement, government spokesman Youssef al-Mahmoud described the incursions as “part of an Israeli scheme to inflame the...

Jordan's Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz said Sunday the kingdom will pay a heavy price if Parliament fails to approve new IMF-backed tax legislation. Razzaz told deputies who were debating the legislation that failure to approve the bill would mean the kingdom would have to pay even...

Egyptian authorities have rounded up at least 40 rights workers, activists and lawyers since late October and detained them in "undisclosed locations," Human Rights Watch said Sunday. "Many of those arrested were people who provided humanitarian and legal support to families of...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he wanted his government to fulfill its term, putting the onus of triggering an expected early election on to a coalition partner. Netanyahu has faced calls from his coalition members to hold a snap election after the...

-Valuable Rugs  The carpet industry was recently placed in the second round of sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Iran after the former withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.  “Sales have recently declined due to the rising cost of materials and falling value of the...

Dozens of protesters suffered temporary asphyxiation from teargas canisters fired by Israeli forces during a rally in support of Palestinian journalists in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. Israeli soldiers used  teargas  to disperse the protest, which was staged at the Qalandia...

Egypt has sentenced an alleged Daesh (ISIS) supporter to death for stabbing and killing an 82-year-old Christian doctor in Cairo. The September 2017 killing took place when the 40-year-old, pretending to be a patient, requested to see the doctor. He started stabbing the doctor as soon...

Iraqi President Barham Salih is scheduled to visit Iran on Saturday for his first official visit to the country since assuming office last month.  According to the Iraqi Presidency, Salih, while in Iran, is expected to meet Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani.  The...