DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state-run media says a car bomb has exploded in the central city of Homs, killing at least seven people. State news agency SANA said the vehicle exploded Sunday in the Arman neighborhood, home to mostly minority Christians and Alawites, the sect of...

Al Jazeera- Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 12-hour humanitarian truce to begin at 8am (05:00 GMT) on Saturday to pause hostilities in Gaza. Hamas said that it and other armed groups in Gaza had reached "national consensus on a humanitarian truce". Israel later confirmed...

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional leaders to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll soared, and further violence loomed between Israelis and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. With Israel and...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers elected a veteran Kurdish politician on Thursday to replace long-serving Jalal Talabani as the country's new president in the latest step toward forming a new government. But a series of attacks killed dozens of people and Islamic militants...