Members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition accused the embattled premier Sunday of perpetuating a "fake crisis" over a political dispute to potentially force early elections. The dispute comes as Netanyahu faces a possible indictment on bribery charges in the...

ISTANBUL (Reuters)- All eight passengers were killed Sunday when a private plane belonging to Turkish firm Basaran Holding crashed in Iran, the head of the Turkish Red Crescent said on Twitter. At least one of the passengers was a member of businessman Huseyin Basaran's family, Kerem...

CAIRO (AFP)- Egypt's military said Sunday 16 jihadists, an officer and a soldier were killed in the past four days during a major military operation against Daesh (ISIS) jihadists in Sinai. The army launched a sweeping campaign after Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who is...

MUSCAT (Reuters)-  U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned Syria Sunday it would be "very unwise" for government forces to use weaponized gas, as he cited unconfirmed reports of chlorine attacks in eastern Ghouta and slammed Russian support for Damascus. Mattis stopped short of...

Nineteen Palestinians have been martyred in the Gaza Strip since U.S. President Donald Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.   In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said three children were among...

Fresh protests erupted in Iraq’s southern Karbala province on Saturday against the arrest of Shia cleric Hossein Shirazi in Iran.   Scores of demonstrators waved banners calling for Shirazi’s release amid calls for the Iraqi government to intervene to free the Shia cleric.  ...

NABLUS, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli soldiers Saturday following a clash with Jewish settlers near the West Bank city of Nablus, medics and security sources said. Palestinian security sources said the clash was started by the settlers, after which...

The leader of an Iranian spiritual movement, whose repeated death sentences drew UN and US condemnation, has been given a five-year jail term after a second retrial, his lawyer said Saturday. In June 2015 and again in September last year, the courts found Mohammad Ali Taheri guilty of...

In 1978, Najla Ali got married to Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi, who later became Egypt’s first freely elected president.   After marriage, Najla travelled with her husband to the U.S., where Morsi went to complete a PhD in material science at the University of Southern...

A Palestinian youth was martyred -- and another four injured -- in clashes with Israeli troops that erupted in the occupied West Bank on Friday, according to witnesses. The clashes followed a weekly demonstration against the recent U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s...

At least three people were killed on Friday -- and another four injured -- in two separate attacks by unknown perpetrators in Baghdad, according to a local police source. “Unidentified gunmen stormed a house early Friday in Baghdad’s eastern Al-Mashtaal district, killing a doctor and...

Turkey's military and its rebel allies have besieged the northern Syrian town of Afrin and were nearing its town center, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday, in what would mark a major advance in Turkey's military operation. Turkey launched its operation, dubbed "Olive Branch", in...

A months-long ban on international flights into and out of northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) will be lifted before the upcoming Nevruz spring festival, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has reportedly said. According to a Friday statement released by the office of...

 The State Department spokesperson on Thursday said talks between Turkish and American officials have begun in the U.S. capital and many issues will be discussed including Syria and Turkey's ongoing operation in Afrin. "Today is the first day that the U.S. government and Turkish...

 Israel’s founding fathers, who etched a commitment to encouraging Jewish immigration into the declaration of independence, might be surprised to find that, seven decades later, the state is relying on Christians to fulfill that promise. What was once a strictly Jewish-funded mission is...

ANKARA (Reuters)- Turkey and Iraq's central government in Baghdad will carry out a joint operation against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying Thursday. Cavusoglu's comments came as Turkey pushed ahead with a cross-border...

CAIRO: Egypt's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the U.N. human rights chief's critical statements on what he described as the "pervasive climate of intimidation" in Egypt ahead of the presidential election later this month. The ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday that...

The bodies of two customs officials were discovered early Thursday in Iraq’s Diyala province hours after they were abducted by unidentified gunmen, according to a local police source.  Diyala Police Captain Habib al-Shammari told Anadolu Agency that the bodies of the two officials...

BAGHDAD (AP)- A Baghdad court has convicted the sister of Daesh's (ISIS) leader on terrorism charges and sentenced her to death. The spokesman of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, Abdel-Sattar Bayrkdar, said in a statement Thursday that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's sister was found guilty for...

TEHRAN: A woman who publicly removed her veil in protest against Iran's compulsory headscarf law has been sentenced to 24 months in prison, three months without parole, the judiciary said Wednesday. Tehran's chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, who announced the sentence, did not...