Two Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters riding on a motorcycle in Gaza were killed in an explosion Tuesday, health officials said. Israel's military denied accounts by local residents that they were killed in an air strike. Violence along the Israel-Gaza border has flared since U.S....

Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq Monday and killed 29 of the group's fighters, Turkey's armed forces said. The PKK fighters were believed to be preparing an attack on Turkish border posts from the Hakurk and Metina regions of northern Iraq,...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday intensified efforts to rally Middle Eastern countries against U.S. recognition of occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital, setting up talks with Arab leaders beginning in Cairo. Abbas will meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt, which...

President Vladimir Putin visited a Russian military air base in Syria on Monday and announced a partial pullout of Russian forces from the war-torn country. Putin made a stopover at the Hmeimim air base in Syria's coastal province of Latakia while en route to Egypt. The base, in...