A top Iraqi commander said on Sunday that troops were continuing to advance toward the center of Mosul, pushing back ISIS fighters, but hindered by sniper fire and suicide bombings as well as concern over the safety of civilians. Maj. Gen. Sami al-Aridi told The Associated Press that his...

President-elect Donald Trump and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney set aside their long-simmering rivalry on Saturday and had talks likely to feed speculation that Romney could be a candidate to be Trump's secretary of state. Trump and Romney emerged from their meeting after...

(Foreign Policy)- Late last week, President-elect Donald Trump explained for the first time since his election victory his position on the crisis in Syria. In his remarks, he laid out his determination to ramp up the fight against the Islamic State and to cease support to those fighting...

A controversial Israeli bill to limit the volume of calls to prayer at mosques may be revived after it appeared to have been buried thanks to opposition from ultra-Orthodox Jews, reports said Thursday. Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, from the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, may...