German prosecutors said on Tuesday they were checking reports that a 16-year-old German teenager under investigation for supporting Daesh (ISIS) was among five women arrested in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Iraqi forces last week declared victory over Daesh in Mosul, though clashes continue in...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives took a first step toward tax reform on Tuesday, with the release of a fiscal 2018 budget plan that would allow a tax reform package to pass the U.S. Congress without support from Democrats. The $4 trillion blueprint, which must be approved by...

Hossein Fereydoun, the brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, has been released on bail following his arrest on charges of financial crime, media reported. "The court has accepted the bail" and Fereydoun, who acts as a key adviser to Rouhani, was freed on Monday night, the ISNA news...

A military court convicted a Jordanian soldier on Monday in the shooting deaths of three U.S. military trainers at a Jordanian air base and sentenced him to life in prison with hard labor. The defendant had pleaded "not guilty," saying he opened fire because he feared the base was coming...