Israeli prosecutors on Monday asked to extend Fawzi al-Juneidi's detention, according to a lawyer for the jailed Palestinian teenager. Al-Juneidi, 16, was arrested in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) last week after being dragged on the ground and blindfolded by a dozen...

Iran’s defense minister has demanded that samples of a missile -- which U.S. officials say was supplied by Iran to Yemen’s Houthi rebels -- be handed over to Tehran for examination, Iran’s private Tasnim news agency reported Monday. “Our enemies can make these assertions,” Defense...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed the Middle East and Iran's nuclear deal in a phone conversation, Russian foreign ministry said Monday.

British diplomat Rebecca Dykes was found dead in the outskirts of the capital Beirut, Lebanese police said Sunday. Her body was found near a motorway in northeastern Metn district on Saturday evening, police said in a statement. An autopsy confirmed the body belonged to the...

The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Monday on a draft resolution that would insist decisions on the status of Jerusalem have no legal effect and must be rescinded, diplomats said on Sunday, after U.S. President Donald Trump recognized the city as Israel’s capital. The...

A top Sudanese security source on Sunday denied reports that eight Saudi opposition clerics had been deported to the Horn of Africa nation. An Arabic media organ linked to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) -- the group behind last year's defeated coup in Turkey -- had reported...

he UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution that would affirm that any change to the status of Jerusalem has no legal effect and must be rescinded, in response to the US decision to recognize the city as Israel’s capital. Egypt circulated the draft text on Saturday and...

Thirty-two Turkish nationals, reportedly opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, were rescued by a patrol boat in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said Saturday. The group was spotted in an rubber dinghy off the Greek island of Oinousses, overnight Thursday to...

Iraqi forces on Saturday uncovered two mass graves in northern Iraq, according to a local Iraqi official. “The two graves contain the remains of 90 victims, most of them were Ezidis,” Mohamed Khalil, the mayor of Sinjar city, told Anadolu Agency. Though the mayor did not say...

Since Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh lost his legs in an Israeli attack a decade ago, he and his wheelchair have been a regular feature at protests along Gaza's border with Israel. On Friday, he became one of four Palestinians to be killed in a day of protest against a US decision to move its...

Four Palestinians were martyred and scores more injured in clashes that erupted Friday in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Mohammed Amin Akel, 22, succumbed to injuries after having been shot multiple times by Israeli...

Two men were shot dead by Israeli gunfire in clashes in East Gaza on Friday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as thousands of Palestinians take to the streets in protests. Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces as fallout continues over President Donald Trump’s...

Second Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces in Gaza clashes: health ministry

Hundreds of Muslim worshipers demonstrated inside Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following Friday prayers to protest the recent U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “For the second Friday in a row, hundreds of Palestinians protested [U.S. President...

Fraud squad detectives questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Jerusalem residence on Friday, the seventh time in a nearly year-long corruption probe, reports said. Public radio and two privately-owned TV channels said that investigators arrived at the house shortly...

Israel announced the closure of its Gaza border crossings on Thursday in response to daily rocket fire from the enclave over the past week after U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital stoked Palestinian anger. Israeli aircraft struck three facilities...

Turkey's official news agency says the coast guard has launched a dramatic rescue operation to evacuate migrants stranded on rocks in the Aegean Sea. At least 68 migrants were attempting to illegally cross to Greece on a rubber dinghy from the western province of Izmir. Anadolu Agency...

The United States, which wants to prevent violence spilling over from Syria into Lebanon, will give the Lebanese army $120 million more in aid to boost border security and counter-terrorism work, the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon said on Wednesday. Lebanon will get six MD 530G light attack...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he was "not impressed" by Muslim leaders' statements on occupied Jerusalem after they urged the world to recognize the city's eastern sector as the capital of Palestine. "We are not impressed by all these statements," Netanyahu...

Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz wants Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to visit, his spokesman said Wednesday, in what would be a historic trip involving two nations with no official diplomatic ties. Israeli leaders have repeatedly spoken of improving ties with the Arab...