(The Daily Star)- Income from Tunisia's tourism sector, hard-hit by extremist attacks, fell eight percent in the first nine months of 2016 compared with the same period last year, according to official figures. From January 1 to Sept. 31, tourism firms took 1.8 billion dinars ($811 million,...

(Middle East Eye)- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused Germany of being one of the world's worst countries for harbouring "terrorists", saying Berlin had not responded to requests to hand over suspects from the 15 July failed coup. Erdogan said that he had handed...

The Israeli authorities have approved construction of 181 new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian expert on Israeli settlement-building activity. Khalil Tufakji told Anadolu Agency that Israel’s Jerusalem planning committee on Wednesday night approved...

(Rudaw)-  A malaise of distrust in Mosul enabled ISIS to easily take over more than two years ago, but now the US has an opportunity to help build trust there and contribute to stabilizing Iraq once the city is liberated, said a former US intelligence officer with experience in Mosul....