As nuclear-armed North Korea's missile stand-off with the U.S. escalates, calls are mounting in the South for Seoul to build nuclear weapons of its own to defend itself - which would complicate the situation even further. The South, which hosts U.S. 28,500 troops on its soil to defend it...

Daesh (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for an attack on a patrol car on Wednesday that killed four Egyptian policemen in North Sinai, the militant group's AMAQ news agency reported on Thursday. Authorities in Arish, the capital of North Sinai province, were on the hunt for gunmen who fired...

An Iranian blogger for an Israeli news site arrived in Israel on Thursday from Turkey where she faced possible deportation back to the Islamic republic, The Times of Israel website reported. The 32-year-old woman, Neda Amin, blogs for the Persian-language edition of The Times of Israel....

Turkish authorities on Thursday issued detention warrants for 35 people, including nine journalists, on suspicion of links to last July's attempted military coup, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The suspects, including the editor of the opposition Birgun newspaper Burak Ekici,...