Iran greeted the reimposition of U.S. sanctions on Monday with air defense drills and an acknowledgement from President Hassan Rouhani the nation faces a "war situation," raising Mideast tensions as America's maximalist approach to the Islamic Republic takes hold. The sanctions end all...

President Donald Trump’s recent assertion that U.S. troops should respond to rock-throwing migrants — a hypothetical scenario — as if they were armed has sparked a debate about the appropriate use of force. Nigerian troops swiftly used Trump’s comments about the migrants as...

Jordan said Sunday Israel had asked for consultations on a special land deal agreed in their peace treaty that the Jordanian government wants to end. Under the peace treaty, two border areas were recognized to be under Jordanian sovereignty but gave Israel special provisions to use the...

At least 25 Daesh terrorists were killed in airstrikes in Iraq’s oil-rich Kirkuk province on Sunday, a senior Iraqi security official said. The U.S.-led international coalition forces carried out airstrikes in the northwestern province of Kirkuk, Maj. Gen. Maan al-Saadi told Anadolu Agency....

Nineteen suspected militants linked to a deadly attack on Coptic Christians in central Egypt have been killed in a shootout with police, the interior ministry said Sunday. Those killed in the exchange of fire were part of a cell that left dead seven Coptic pilgrims in Friday's attack in...

Israeli forces on Sunday raided the Jerusalem governor’s office in the occupied West Bank, according to local residents.  “An Israeli force stormed the governor’s office in the town of al-Ram, northeast of Jerusalem, and searched it,” a local resident told Anadolu Agency. ...

Thousands of Iranians rallied in Tehran Sunday to mark the 39th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover, as Washington restored all sanctions lifted under the nuclear deal. The crowd chanted "Down with U.S." and "Death to Israel" during the rally in the capital, and state TV said...

A Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jet of the Egyptian Air Forces crashed in Egypt during a training flight on Saturday, according to Russia’s state-controlled aircraft company. The Russian United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said in a statement that a technical glitch and piloting error are among the...

A Jordanian official on Saturday called on his government to reverse a decision to cancel a free trade agreement with Turkey. “The commercial sector hopes that the government would restudy the agreement carefully to serve the best of all parties,” Nael al-Kabariti, the head of the...

State TV says Iran has inaugurated the production line of its domestically produced fighter jet a day after President Donald Trump’s administration announced the reimposition of remaining U.S. sanctions on Tehran to ramp up economic pressure on the Islamic Republic. Defense Minister...

A senior Palestinian official Friday condemned Brazilian far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s announcement that he would move his country’s Israel embassy to occupied Jerusalem. The move announced Thursday comes six months after the United States controversially transferred its embassy,...

The U.S. announced Friday it is reimposing all sanctions lifted under a 2015 nuclear pact world powers struck with Iran.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made the announcement during a telephone call with reporters.  The new wave of...

Islamist militants Friday ambushed a bus carrying Christian pilgrims on their way to a remote desert monastery south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, killing at least seven and wounding 12, the Interior Ministry said. Coptic Orthodox Church spokesman Bouls Halim said the death toll in...

The United States said Friday it will temporarily allow eight jurisdictions to keep importing Iranian oil when U.S. sanctions come back into force Monday, sparing them for now from the threat of U.S. economic penalties. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who announced the decision in...

Iran said Friday that a report that eight countries had been granted waivers to U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil showed that Iran's crude was needed and could not be withdrawn from the market. "The waivers granted to these eight countries shows that the market needs Iran's oil and it cannot be...

Jordan's education and tourism ministers resigned Thursday after an investigation into the deaths of 21 people, mainly school children who were swept away in flash floods on a school outing in the Dead Sea region, state media said. A parliamentary committee formed to investigate the...

Egyptian security forces have detained the daughter of former presidential candidate and senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater, family members and two security sources said Thursday. Aisha al-Shater was one of six women arrested overnight. They also included Huda Abd...

Turkey's military carried out air strikes in northern Iraq Wednesday, killing 23 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), it said on Twitter. The air strikes targeted several regions in the neighboring northern Iraq, including the Qandil mountains, a PKK stronghold,...

Iran's foreign ministry summoned the Danish ambassador on Wednesday over the arrest of an Iranian-Norwegian national for allegedly plotting an attack in Denmark. "The Danish ambassador arrived at the foreign ministry this morning," foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said in a...

Daesh (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on Shiiite Muslim pilgrims in Iraq Tuesday, its news agency Amaq reported. The roadside bomb killed three pilgrims as they walked to a holy site near the northeastern Iraqi city of Khanaqin.