The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has withdrawn from frontline positions against Islamic State north of Aleppo and ceded them to other rebels, leaving an area of northern Syria where Turkey wants to establish a buffer zone. A Nusra Front statement dated Sunday criticized a Turkish-U.S....

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian who stabbed an Israeli man at a petrol station in the occupied West Bank on Sunday along a main highway near Jerusalem, police said. The Israeli 26-year-old civilian was lightly hurt and taken to hospital, police spokeswoman Luba Samri...

The son of former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani presented himself at Tehran's Evin prison on Sunday to begin serving a ten year sentence on charges linked to embezzlement, bribery and what state television called "anti-security issues". Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani...

Fatha Army fighters have regained control of several villages in northwest Syria from government forces and have advanced beyond them, edging closer to a coastal stronghold of President Bashar Assad, a monitoring group and other sources said on Sunday. The insurgents launched a...