A former chief of staff to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to provide testimony on behalf of the state in two graft cases in which the Israeli leader has been questioned as a suspect, court papers showed on Friday. The decision by Ari Harow to turn state's witness as part of a...

Iraqi troops have found a mass grave in the western city of Ramadi containing the bodies of 40 men believed to have been executed by Daesh (ISIS), officials said Friday. It is the latest of dozens of such grisly finds made by Iraqi forces since they drove the extremists out of the swathes of...

The new sanctions against Russia that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law on Wednesday are "more than problematic," German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said. Speaking in the northern German city of Wolfsburg on Friday, Gabriel criticised the United States for departing from its...

Syrians who left Lebanon after a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Nusra militants on Thursday started crossing into a rebel-held area of Syria where they will settle, Lebanese media reported. As part of the same agreement, captured Hezbollah fighters began to be released at the same...