Japan’s economy fell into recession Monday in a set back for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration, local media reported. The second successive quarter of negative growth will put pressure on the government to postpone a planned sales tax increase, the Kyodo news...

Clashes broke out in several neighborhoods of East Jerusalem overnight after a Palestinian driver was found hanged late Sunday in an Israeli bus in West Jerusalem, eyewitnesses said. Israeli security forces used stun grenade and tear gas to disperse protesters who...

Everyone now knows Turkey does not help terrorists because it allowed foreign fighters to enter Syrian town of Kobani to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister said Monday. Yalcin  Akdogan clarified doubts about Turkey’s policy...

(AFP)- The US-led coalition against the Islamic State jihadist group carried out a series of air strikes overnight in the embattled Syrian town of Kobane, a monitor and activists said Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported intensifying clashes between...