(Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Sunday to an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza starting at 1700 ET, officials from the warring sides said. " Israel has accepted Egypt's proposal," a senior Israeli government official said, adding...

(Reuters) - Turks voted in their country's first presidential election on Sunday with Tayyip Erdogan poised to win and fulfill his dream of what he calls a "new Turkey " and what his opponents say will be an increasingly authoritarian nation. A victory for Erdogan would seal...

BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of members of a religious minority group under attack by Islamic extremists have fled across the border from Iraq to seek refuge with the Kurds of northeastern Syria, said two Kurdish officials and an activist on Saturday. Ekrem Hasso and Juan Mohammad...

Washington, Aug 9 (IANS) President Barack Obama said Saturday that the US air strikes have "successfully destroyed arms and equipment" that terrorists with Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) could have used against the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil in Iraq. "We...