Jordanian police said Monday they found suicide belts and other explosives in the hideout of suspected ISIS extremists behind an attack that killed 10 people, including a Canadian tourist. Another 34 people were wounded in Sunday's shooting spree, including a second Canadian. Four gunmen...

Iran has finalized an agreement with Airbus to acquire 100 jetliners, the first of which is tentatively expected to be delivered in mid-January, a senior official said on Monday. The deal, split roughly equally between narrow-body and wide-body aircraft, will be signed in coming days,...

One Turkish soldier was killed in a car bomb attack in the northern Syrian town of al-Bab while 11 ISIS militants were killed in clashes on Sunday, the Turkish military said in a statement on Monday. It said Turkish warplanes on Sunday destroyed 52 ISIS targets in the area of al-Bab, which...

Lebanon's President, Michel Aoun, and Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri have formed a new government of 30 ministers drawn from most sides of the country's political spectrum and from all of its religious sects, the cabinet office said on Sunday. "Today a new government was formed," said Hariri,...

Jordan said on Sunday a security operation to deal with around six "terrorists" holed up in a Crusader-era castle in the southern city of Karak in a shoot-out that has so far killed at least nine people was approaching its end. Government minister and spokesman Mohammad al-Momani told state...

Seven policemen, two Jordanian civilians and one Canadian tourist were killed Sunday when gunmen staged a series of attacks on police patrols and a historic castle in the heart of the southern city of Karak. According to Jordanian police, at least 20 others were injured, and security sources...

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir denied on Sunday reports that the United States had decided to limit military support, including a planned arms sale, to the kingdom. U.S. officials have said Washington decided to curb backing for Saudi Arabia's campaign in Yemen, including halting the...

Unidentified armed gunmen fired at several police patrols in drive-by shootings in the southern Jordanian city of Karak with reports of several casualties, security sources said. They said the attackers were being pursued in an ancient castle in the mountainous city where some of the...

At least 90 people evacuated from war-battered Aleppo city have been transferred to hospitals in Turkey’s southern Hatay province for medical treatment. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent, the injured, who are in a serious condition, were allowed into Turkey via Cilvegozu border...

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian on Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, after entering a village in the occupied West Bank where, the Israeli military said, they were confronted by stone-throwers. A military spokeswoman said an Israeli paramilitary policeman was injured...

 An explosion Sunday morning outside a military camp near the southern Yemeni city of Aden has killed at least 23 people, according to Yemeni officials. The officials tell The Associated Press that the explosion is suspected of being the work of a suicide bomber wearing an explosive...

Dozens of nationalist protestors Saturday stormed the headquarters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the central Turkish city of Kayseri after an attack that left 13 soldiers dead, images showed. The protesters broke into the building where the office is located,...

A total of 55 people were being treated in hospital after a car bomb attack on a bus in the central Turkish city of Kayseri Saturday, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said, an attack the military has said killed 13. Soylu, who was speaking at a joint news conference with the health minister,...

Several people were wounded on Saturday in a car bombing close to a public bus in the central Turkish city of Kayseri, television reports said. Initial television pictures showed that the bus had been reduced to a smouldering wreck by the impact of the blast. The Dogan news agency said...

(The Daily Star)- Demonstrators in north Lebanon Friday called for the expulsion of the Syrian, Iranian and Russian ambassadors to the country over the developments in the Syrian city of Aleppo, while mosques in the south performed absentee funeral prayers for those who were killed in the...

Saudi police arrested a Syrian resident in Riyadh after he posted a photo of himself Facebook praising the recapture of his home city of Aleppo by government forces, according to a report in al-Riyadh newspaper Friday. A photo published with the report showed a man with his hand raised and...

ISIS fighters have stepped up counterattacks on Iraqi forces in Mosul amid bad weather as the U.S.-backed offensive to capture their last major city stronghold in Iraq enters its third month. With cloudy skies hampering coalition air surveillance, the militants carried out attacks in three...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a 'butcher' who should be thrown out of the country along with his Iranian allies. "In my personal opinion, Assad is a butcher who massacred and murdered people," Lieberman told a conference of Jews from the...

(The Daily Star)- “Keep your headphones in so we can communicate,” Jesse Rosenfeld shouted into the microphone. “If people decide they hate the press we’re going to have to get the f---k out of here.” “Freelancer on the Front Lines,” a new documentary by Santiago Bertolino released at the...

Turkish and Russian premiers spoke over the phone about the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo late Thursday, according to a Turkish Prime Ministry source. Binali Yildirim called on his counterpart Dmitry Medvedev to use Russia’s "influence" on its stakeholders in Aleppo, the source, who...