Islamic State group fighters disguised as soldiers ambushed a government convoy in a remote desert region of western Iraq Sunday, killing 10 members of the security forces, commanders said. "Daesh (IS) members armed with assault rifles and rocket launchers attacked civilian and military...

A Palestinian teenager stabbed and slightly wounded four Israelis in Tel Aviv on Sunday, police said, adding that the suspect was arrested. The 18-year-old used a wire-cutter to carry out the attack in a hotel and on the city's seaside promenade, wounding four people who were given first aid...

 Heavy two-way traffic of carts carrying children, clothes, and the elderly crowded the main Baghdad-Mosul road on Sunday as hundreds of Iraqis fled heavy fighting or made their way back to areas liberated from ISIS. Families paid no heed to the sound of heavy mortar, artillery and...

( The New Arab )- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Riyadh on Sunday for talks with Saudi King Salman in a bid to end to an ongoing rift between Cairo and the Kingdom. The visit comes in response to an invitation extended by King Salman earlier this month when the two...

 Three policemen were killed on Sunday in a suicide attack south of Mosul, the northern Iraqi city where ISIS is fighting off a U.S.-backed offensive, security sources said. A group of about 10 assailants, including four suicide bombers, had tried to infiltrate a Federal Police...

Two Qatari hunters who endured a 16-month hostage ordeal in Iraq spoke Sunday of their joy at being released, in the first public comments since the group were freed. Mohammed Marzouki was among 24 Qataris and two Saudis who were on a hunting trip in a mainly Shiite area of southern Iraq...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman issued a decree late Saturday naming one of his sons, an air force pilot who has taken part in coalition strikes against ISIS, as the kingdom's new ambassador to the U.S. The appointment of Prince Khaled bin Salman to Washington signals the kingdom's eagerness to...

At least five Palestinians were wounded Saturday after residents of a hard-line Israeli settlement attacked villages in the occupied West Bank south of Nablus, medical sources said. The Palestinian medical sources said dozens of residents from the hard-line settlement of Yitzhar went to the...

( New York Times )- He was the only man I saw when we entered the nearly empty village in northern Iraq, which had just recently been liberated from the Islamic State. The first thing he did when he approached our car was ask my colleague for a light. That’s when I noticed the pack of cigarettes...

A local Islamic State leader was killed on Saturday during a dawn raid by the Lebanese army in which troops arrested 10 suspected militants who had entered a northeastern border town from Syria, the army said. No soldiers were reported wounded or killed in the operation in Arsal, which...

Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul Saturday after Iraqi forces retook two more districts in the west of the city from ISIS. After walking for miles, families were taken by bus from a government checkpoint in the south of the city to camps...

Two Saudis were among a mainly Qatari hunting party freed after a 16-month hostage ordeal in Iraq, Saudi media reported Saturday. The 26 hunters, initially believed to all be Qataris, were flown to Doha Friday after being handed over to Iraqi authorities. Jeddah-based newspaper Okaz...

Turkey's justice minister slammed the main opposition party Saturday for contesting the outcome of Sunday's referendum on expanding presidential powers and said there is no judicial path to reverse the ruling. In a series of tweets, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said all decisions on...

Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul Saturday after Iraqi forces retook another district in the west of the city from ISIS. After walking for miles, families were taken by bus from a government checkpoint in the south of the city to camps...

 Israel's army said Friday it had targeted positions inside Syria in retaliation for mortar fire that struck the northern part of the occupied Golan Heights. "The Israeli army targeted the source of the fire," an army statement said without giving further details. An army...

Israel reopened a border crossing into Egypt's Sinai region Friday after a more than week-long closure due to security threats, but urged its citizens to avoid visiting the peninsula. A statement from the prime minister's office said that based on an assessment at the counter-terrorism...

Turkish soldiers clashed with Kurdish militants in a rural area of southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border Friday morning and two soldiers were killed, the armed forces said. The firefight occurred around 9.30 am (0630 GMT) in the Uludere district of Sirnak province and two soldiers were also...

Iraq's Shiite ruling coalition would oppose Kurdish plans to hold a referendum on independence after the defeat of ISIS, its president, Ammar al-Hakim, has said. Speaking to Reuters in an interview in Cairo, Hakim advised the Kurds against any unilateral move to annex a disputed oil-rich...

An international rights group on Thursday decried the use of land mines by Yemen's Shiite rebels in the impoverished Arab country at war, saying they have killed and maimed hundreds of civilians and prevented many of the displaced from returning to their homes. Human Rights Watch said in a...

Israel's military said on Wednesday it believes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces still possess several tonnes of chemical weapons, issuing the assessment two weeks after a chemical attack that killed nearly 90 people in Syria. Israel, along with many countries, blames the strike on...