ISIS has foiled a serious coup attempt aimed at deposing its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to a report published after the extremist group allegedly executed a top official in Mosul. “For the first ever there has been an attempt to depose Abu Bakr al-Baghadi,” Alaraby Aljadeed...

The United States is seeing signs that new efforts to draw Sunni tribesmen into Iraq's battle against Islamic State may be taking root at a military base near the fallen capital of Sunni-dominated Anbar province, U.S. officials say. A U.S. defense officials told Reuters the...

A senior Israeli army officer shot and killed a Palestinian youth who was throwing stones near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. A Palestinian witness and an Israeli military spokeswoman said the Palestinian was among a group throwing stones...

Turkish police disarmed a man -- suspected of being a member  of Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, terrorist group -- carrying 14 kilograms of explosives and a firearm near a shopping center in the western city of Izmir. A police team performing a routine road check early Thursday morning...

Cut off from Yemen and its allies there by a Saudi-led military campaign, Iran has intensified a media counter-offensive against Riyadh, accusing its regional rival of inflicting catastrophic suffering while presenting itself as a blameless peacemaker. Iranian state media have given blanket...

 Justice and Development (AK) Party deputy  Ismet Yilmaz was elected Turkey's newparliamentary speaker on Wednesday. Yilmaz, a defense minister in the previous AK Party government, received 258 votes in the fourth and final round of two-days’ voting among the Grand National Assembly’s...

 Egyptian security forces stormed an apartment in the western Cairo suburb of '6th of October' and killed nine men whom they said were armed, security sources said. The sources said authorities had received information the group was planning to carry out an attack. Among those dead was...

Islamic State militants launched a wide-scale coordinated assault on several military checkpoints in Egypt's North Sinai on Wednesday in which 50 people were killed, security sources said, the largest attack yet in the insurgency-hit province. Egyptian army F-16 jets and Apache helicopters...

At least 20 Egyptian security forces were killed when suspected militants attacked checkpoints in North Sinai on Wednesday, security sources said, in one of the biggest coordinated assaults in the province. Five checkpoints were attacked by about 70 militants, an army spokesman said, adding...

An Egyptian security official says a bomb blast near a police station killed three people, a day after the assassination of the country's prosecutor general. The blast took place Tuesday in the Six of October district. The official says it is not immediately clear whether the three killed were...

U.S. President Barack Obama warned Tuesday he will "walk away" from a bad nuclear deal with Iran, as Tehran and six world powers gave themselves until July 7 to reach an agreement. Insisting there must be a "strong, rigorous verification mechanism" for monitoring Iran's nuclear sites, Obama...

A top aide of Tayyip Erdogan rejected accusations the Turkish president was ready to pitch the country's armed forces into war in Syria and said any security measures it took would be intended only to secure its southern frontier. Turkey's main opposition leader said the "drums of war" were...

A senior Israeli defense official said President Bashar al-Assad controlled just a fifth of Syria and may end up in charge of a rump state dominated by his minority Alawite sect. Israel and its neighbor Syria are long-term enemies, but the remarks by Amos Gilad, strategic adviser to...

Four Israelis were wounded, one seriously, when their car came under fire on a road near the West Bank settlement of Shvut Rachel Monday, Israeli security sources said. The injured, all of them men in their 20s, were taken to Israeli hospitals. One of them was in a serious condition, the...

Egypt's top public prosecutor died on Monday of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his Cairo home on Monday in a marked escalation of Islamist militant attacks on the judiciary. Judges and other state officials have increasingly been targeted by radical...

The wife of a prominent Palestinian detainee says he has agreed to end a 55-day hunger strike and in exchange will be released by Israel. Rights groups have warned in recent days that Khader Adnan is near death. Randa Adnan visited her husband in an Israeli hospital over the weekend and...

Israeli naval forces boarded and took over an activist vessel seeking to break the Gaza blockade, and were escorting it to an Israeli port early Monday, the military said, saying that the navy did not use force. "In accordance with international law, the Israeli Navy advised the vessel...

Four people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said. In the Obeidi district of eastern Baghdad a bomb exploded near a crowded market, killing two people. Another bomb went of near a crowded grocery market in the Doura district of southern...

The attacks came one after the other in the space of a few hours. In France, a decapitated body covered in Arabic writing was found after an attacker rammed his car into a gas container, triggering an explosion. In Kuwait, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a packed Shi'ite mosque during...

Islamic State militants detonated a car bomb and then opened fire on Iraqi troops in the western province of Anbar on Thursday, killing 14 soldiers, security sources said. Iraqi government forces and their Shi'ite militia allies are hoping to recapture Anbar's provincial capital Ramadi, which...