The European Union’s (EU) general court has rejected an appeal by a prominent Syrian businessman and chair of the airliner, Cham Wings, to have the company removed from the bloc’s sanctions list, months after it was re-added on to the blacklist. Since January this year, the EU added...

Armenia said it would recognize a Palestinian state on Friday, prompting Israel to summon its ambassador for what the Foreign Ministry described as a “severe reprimand.” Dozens of countries have recognized a Palestinian state, though none of the major Western powers has done so....

Israeli military analyst Amos Harel on Friday said the army wants to withdraw from Gaza, but that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "has other ideas." In an analytical article in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Harel said Netanyahu “continues to declare that the all-out war against Hamas will...

MILAN (AP) — The Italian coast guard on Thursday recovered 12 more bodies from a  weekend shipwreck in the Ionian Sea  off the southern Italian coastline, bringing to 20 the number of known victims from the sinking. Dozens more are missing and presumed dead. The bodies, including...