Turkey will never accept the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. “We will never accept US attempt to move embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli capital,” Erdogan said in a joint news...

The U.S. on Tuesday sanctioned the head of Iran's central bank and another senior bank official, claiming they have been key to funneling money to the external operations unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanese Hezbollah. Valiollah Seif was blacklisted by...

The top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that the election results in Iraq were "very good" and said Tehran respects the will of the Iraqi people. "This was a very good election and we congratulate the Iraqi government and people. Whoever the Iraqi people choose...

Populist Shiite religious scholar Moqtada Sadr Tuesday eyed a governing coalition after dealing a blow to both Iranian and U.S. influence with a shock election triumph that upended Iraqi politics. With the last ballots still being counted, however, Tehran and its local allies already...

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire Tuesday amid renewed sporadic clashes on the Gaza Strip border, the Gazan health ministry said, a day after dozens died in the bloodiest day in years. The man killed was identified as Nasser Ghorab, 51, the ministry said, adding he was hit east...

Turkey on Tuesday told the Israeli ambassador to temporarily leave the country in protest at the killing of dozens of Palestinians by Israeli troops on the Gaza border, a foreign ministry official said. Ambassador Eitan Naeh was summoned to the foreign ministry and told to "return to...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini as the Europeans seek to keep the Iran nuclear agreement. Zarif said little to reporters Tuesday but suggested he wanted to discuss the deaths of dozens of Palestinians in...

Russian Acting Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Tuesday it was possible to discuss the future of the Iran nuclear deal without the participation of the United States, the RIA news agency reported. Ryabkov also said it would be impossible to preserve the deal without Tehran...

Turkish authorities have detained 54 suspected Daesh (ISIS) members in Istanbul who were believed to be preparing to travel to conflict zones in Syria, police said Tuesday. All of those detained were foreign nationals, it said, without giving details on when the detentions took place....

Nationalist religious scholar Moqtada al-Sadr, a longtime adversary of the United States, led in Iraq’s parliamentary election with more than half the votes counted Monday, the electoral commission said, in a surprise turn of fortune for the Shiite leader. In the first election since...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered on Monday a recount of votes in Kirkuk, amid alleged fraud in parliamentary election, Turkmen politician says.  Arshad al-Salihi, the president of the Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF), told Anadolu Agency that Abadi had ordered a recount over...

Kuwait has requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council Tuesday to discuss continuing violence along the Gaza-Israel border, diplomats said Monday. The death toll in Gaza from Israeli live fire reached 52 Monday, the highest level in a single day since a series of such...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's actions on the Gaza border, where dozens of Palestinians were killed during mass protests Monday, were self-defense against the enclave's ruling Hamas group. "Every country has an obligation to defend its borders," Netanyahu wrote...

At least 52 Palestinians were martyred and hundreds injured on Monday by Israeli gunfire during anti-occupation rallies in the Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry.   “The death toll rose to 55 martyrs and over 1,700 others injured” by Israeli forces, ministry spokesman...

(AP) — Amid deadly clashes along the Israeli-Palestinian border, President Donald Trump declared Monday a "great day" for Israel as his top aides celebrated the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem as a campaign promised fulfilled. Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared...

Israel's prime minister says Jerusalem will always be the "eternal, undivided" capital of Israel. Addressing the opening ceremony of the new American Embassy in Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu called it a "glorious" day. Netanyahu thanked President Donald Trump for showing the...

The United States officially opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem on Monday, fulfilling a pledge by President Donald Trump who has recognized the holy city as the Israeli capital. "Today we open the United States embassy in Jerusalem, Israel," U.S. ambassador to Israel David...

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri calls the U.S. decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem a "provocative" act that closes the doors for any attempts to reach peace between the Israel and Palestinians. Hariri in a series of tweets Monday said he regrets "this decision that is igniting...

Israeli troops killed at least 18 Palestinians along the Gaza border Monday, health officials said, as demonstrators streamed to the frontier on the day the United States prepared to open its embassy in Jerusalem. Protests intensified on the 70th anniversary of Israel's founding, with...

Britain has no plans to move its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and still disagrees with the U.S. decision to do so, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said Monday. "The PM said in December when the announcement was first made that we disagree with the U.S. decision to...