President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party will ask Turkey’s top electoral board for a recount of all votes cast in local elections in Istanbul, a senior party official said on Sunday. Initial results from the March 31 election gave a narrow victory to the opposition Republican People’s...

Israel's leader will face a "real problem" if he follows through with his election campaign promise to annex Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Palestinian foreign minister said Sunday. Riyad al-Maliki told The Associated Press on the sidelines of the World Economic...

Fierce clashes erupted Sunday between East Libya-based forces and government troops on the outskirts of the Libyan capital Tripoli.   Gunfire was heard in southern and central Tripoli between forces led by commander Khalifa Haftar -- who reportedly seeks to wrest control of the...

At least 15 people were reported killed on Sunday in shelling by  regime forces and insurgent forces in northwestern Syria, further straining a Russian-Turkish ceasefire deal for the region. The northwest is the last major foothold of insurgents opposed to President Bashar al-Assad,...