(Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered an urgent investigation on Friday into the fatal shooting of three Sunni clerics and the wounding of two others near the southern city of Basra. The attack late on Thursday was carried out by four gunmen who opened fire...
(Reuters) - Jewish settlers threw stones at the cars of a U.S. diplomatic delegation which came to inspect vandalism to nearby Palestinian-owned trees in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israeli police said. The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv and consulate in Jerusalem had no...
(Reuters) - Two of three Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt have applied to be deported under a new law after the country's highest court ordered their retrial but did not free them as their families had hoped. Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy...
(Reuters) - Egyptian border troops shot dead a Palestinian youth as he tried to cross illegally from the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said. Cairo has been clamping down on its Sinai frontier with Gaza, seeing a security threat in the Islamist...
(Reuters) - In a move that heightened tensions with Israel and could lead to cuts in U.S. aid, the Palestinians on Friday delivered to U.N. headquarters documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and other international treaties. The chief...
Scores of Palestinians on Friday suffered temporary asphyxiation when Israeli army forces forcibly dispersed anti-occupation protesters in parts of the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces fired live ammunition and teargas to disperse Palestinians who had gathered in several...
At least ten Israeli soldiers committed suicide in 2014, including four who took part in a devastating military onslaught on the Gaza Strip this summer, Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Thursday. According to the newspaper, which conducted the survey, three more soldiers...
A magnitude-5.2 earthquake hit the southern Iranian province of Bushehr on Thursday. The epicenter of the quake was in Boshkan district, the Iranian Seismological Center said. No casualties have been reported so far. On Tuesday,...
At least 100 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants were killed in the southern part of Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraq’s defense ministry said. Air-assisted riot police and Shiite volunteers carried out the operation, according to a written statement from Iraq’s defense...
(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been voted in as head of the right-wing Likud party, overcoming his first hurdle toward winning a fourth term in office in a March general election, results of a party primary published on Thursday showed. Israeli...
The UN Security Council on Tuesday rejected a draft resolution calling for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories within three years. The motion, which was submitted Monday by Jordan after it had been agreed upon by Arab states, failed to obtain the...
(Reuters) - Iran and six world powers are set to resume low-level talks on Iran's nuclear program in Geneva on Jan 15, with wide gaps remaining in their positions, the Iranian foreign minister said. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the lead negotiator for Iran...
(Reuters) - Turkey's top judicial body has suspended four prosecutors who initiated a corruption investigation that targeted the inner circle of President Tayyip Erdogan, Dogan news agency reported on Tuesday. The probe, which became public with raids on Dec. 17 last year, led...
(Anadolu News Agency)- Israeli forces detained over 1,000 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem over the course of this year, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said Tuesday. Abdel-Nasser Farawna, who heads the PLO's authority for prisoners'...
Iraqi forces backed by Sunni tribes advanced into the town of Dhuluiyah north of Baghdad on Sunday in a new attempt to push out Islamic State group jihadists, officials said. In October, Iraqi forces retook most of Dhuluiyah from IS, but the jihadists later launched a...
A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards was killed by a sniper's bullet in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra as he was training Iraqi troops and Shiite militiamen fighting militants of the self-declared Islamic State, Iran says. Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi, who...
(Anadolu News Agency)- Unprecedented international support for the symbolic recognition of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders was voiced out during 2014. This support was brought about by a series of motions adopted by a number of European parliaments. The Swedish parliament...
The Palestinian faction Hamas on Sunday called for the immediate withdrawal of a Palestinian draft resolution filed at the U.N. Security Council to set a timetable for Israel's pullout from Palestinian territories it has been occupying since 1967. "The draft resolution contains massive...
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas can govern the Gaza Strip if the Palestinian unity government allows it to do so, a senior Hamas official said Saturday. “There is clear laziness," Musa Abu Marzuq, deputy leader of the Hamas political bureau, said...
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Ezidi fighters managed to capture 40 ISIL members and kill another 15 in the northern governorate of Ninawa on Saturday, an Ezidi commander has said. “ Peshmerga forces supported Ezidi fighters who detained 40...
