Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan Monday condemned Israel's decision to ramp up settlements in the West Bank as an "absolute provocation." Israel announced plans last month for 3,000 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank. It has also retroactively legalized about 4,000 settlement...

Syrian extremists seen as close to ISIS battled a rival hard-line Islamist faction Monday in northwestern Syria, activists and an official with another insurgent group said, in an escalating power struggle. Jund al-Aqsa and Tahrir al-Sham clashed around Kafr Zeita in the countryside north of...

(The Daily Mail )- Every day, the bodies were delivered to the hospital: battered beyond belief and hideously scarred from months of the most horrific torture imaginable. The corpses were shrivelled from dehydration and starvation, with ribs sticking out and limbs like sticks. Most were...

Reverberations from President Donald Trump's travel ban and other stances are threatening to undermine future U.S.-Iraqi security cooperation, rattling a key alliance that over the past two years has slowly beaten back the Islamic State group. Iraq's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has...