The Israeli army killed a Palestinian woman in a northern town of the occupied West Bank on Thursday for allegedly carrying out a stabbing attack. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the woman as Eman Ziyad Odeh, 26, and said she was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Huwara town south...

Three months after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, living conditions remain dire in Syria's rebel-held northwest, aid officials who visited the region said Wednesday. The Feb. 6, earthquake killed more than 50,000 people, including over 6,000 in Syria, according to the United...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the second-such capture by Tehran in under a week amid heightened tensions over its nuclear program. The taking of the oil...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Wednesday met Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus in a bid to boost cooperation between the two allies, state media reported. Tehran has been a main backer of Assad's government since an uprising turned into a full-blown war in March 2011 and has played...