Iraq has invited companies to submit statements of interest in building a new pipeline from the northern city of Kirkuk to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. The state-run Oil Projects Company said Sunday the 350-kilometer pipeline will carry up to one million barrels a day. It says...

A federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon must allow an American Daesh fighter captured in Iraq access to a lawyer, following a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court in Washington ruled Saturday the ACLU must be...

The name of the street where the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Embassy is located in the Turkish capital, Ankara will be changed, the capital's municipality announced Saturday. The street will be renamed as Fahreddin Pasha Street -- after the Ottoman governor of Medina from 1916-1919,...

Three Turkish citizens, who were arrested at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday, have been released on bail by an Israeli court on Saturday evening. Two of the Turkish citizens-- Abdullah Kizilirmak and Mehmet Kargili -- are accused of "battering Israeli police and resistance". The third...

A Palestinian man has succumbed to his wounds sustained in clashes with Israeli forces along the border between Gaza Strip and Israel last week, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry on Saturday. Sherif al-Abd Shalash, 28, was injured last Sunday during rallies denouncing U.S....

Israeli authorities have arrested three Turkish tourists in Jerusalem over an incident that followed Muslim prayers at a flashpoint holy site, a police spokesman said on Saturday. The spokesman did not elaborate on the circumstances of Friday's arrests, which came as Israel confronted...

Israeli police arrested three Turkish citizens who tried to performed Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque, according to eyewitness accounts.   “Earlier today, Israeli police banned a number of Turkish pilgrims from entering the Al-Aqsa mosque compound,” an...

When Rosa, now 14, asked her Daesh (ISIS) captors about her younger sisters Bushra, 12, and Suhayla, 7, she was told they had been killed for misbehaving. “At that point, I didn’t care about anything anymore. Even if I died,” she said. “I never thought I’d see them again.” The sisters...

The Palestinian president welcomed Thursday a United Nations General Assembly resolution criticising the US government's controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. "This decision reaffirms once again that the just Palestinian cause enjoys the support of international...

A senior leader in Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas warned Thursday of the potential collapse of a reconciliation agreement made with political rivals Fatah. "The reconciliation is collapsing and everyone must intervene to save it," Yahya Sinwar, the Gaza head of Hamas, told a...

Palestinian FM Riyad al-Malki: No peace plan can be imagined with excluding Jerusalem: Anadolu Agency  

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has warned member states ahead of a voting on a resolution calling for the reversal of President Donald Trump's decision on Jerusalem, according to a report by Foreign Policy. On Thursday, the UN General Assembly will hold a rare emergency special...

Protests raged for a third day in Iraqi Kurdistan on Wednesday despite a clampdown by security forces after five people were killed as ire exploded at the calamitous fallout from an independence vote. Demonstrators in the town of Rania, where five protesters were shot dead and dozens...

An Israeli court extended the detention of Ahed al-Tamimi for 10 days on Wednesday after she was arrested on Tuesday over a film in which she appeared to be confronting two soldiers, in Al-Nabi Saleh, a small village in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli court where the 17-year-old...

Leading Kurdish opposition movement Gorran has withdrawn its ministers from Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its member Yousif Mohamed has resigned as parliament speaker, party sources told Reuters on Wednesday. The Kurdistan Islamic Group (Komal), another...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev separately received on Thursday Turkish and Iranian foreign ministers in Baku. According to a presidential statement, the meeting came before a fifth trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Iran. Aliyev...

 The Israeli army detained 24 Palestinians in overnight raids in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to Palestinian NGOs on Wednesday. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said Israeli forces rounded up 18 Palestinians after raiding their homes in the...

Remember the Palestinian girl who tried to defend her younger brother from Israeli soldiers? She's just been arrested. Watch the video of Ahed Tamimi fending off an Israeli soldier who was assaulting her brother. AJ+

Iran said Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump cannot cause its nuclear deal with six major powers to collapse. "The nuclear deal will not collapse ... Those who hope that Trump will cause its collapse, are wrong," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on State...

The United States was further isolated on Monday over President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital when it blocked a United Nations Security Council call for the declaration to be withdrawn. The remaining 14 council members voted in favor of the...