President Donald Trump will address around 800 U.S. and Israeli dignitaries at the ceremonial opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem by video Monday, a senior official said. It was not immediately clear from the senior administration official's comment, on a background call to...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A White House official dismissed Sen. John McCain's opposition to President Donald Trump's CIA nominee, saying "it doesn't matter" because "he's dying anyway," two people in the room told The Associated Press. Kelly Sadler was discussing McCain's opposition to Trump's...

(AP) — Barack Obama won it.  So did Jimmy Carter, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Now, President Donald Trump's supporters are pushing for him to be the next U.S. leader to win the Nobel Peace Prize — a move that's being met by smirks and eye rolls in Europe, where Trump remains...

(AP) — Gaza activists burned tires near the sealed border with Israel on Friday in a seventh weekly protest aimed at shaking off a decade-old blockade of their territory. Israeli soldiers fired tear gas volleys from the other side of the border fence. The protest came just three days...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed it was "wrong" for the United States to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, a Turkish presidential source said late Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump Tuesday defied the wishes of world powers when...

Syrian rebels left an enclave in south Damascus Thursday, state media said, the last in a string of rebel towns that have surrendered around the capital in recent weeks. A pocket near Homs city remains the only besieged enclave in rebel hands across the country, though insurgent...

 Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a telephone conversation Friday reaffirmed their commitment to preserving the Iran nuclear deal after the U.S. pulled out of it, the Kremlin said. "The situation around the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Faylaq al-Rahman, once key Islamist group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, has swindled the local council, taking $250,000 before being evacuated to northern Syria, documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed. Mustafa Saker, Head of the Local Council, demanded the group to...

Russia is not in talks with the Syrian government about supplying advanced S-300 ground-to-air missiles and does not think they are needed, the Izvestia daily cited a top Kremlin aide as saying Friday, in an apparent U-turn by Moscow. The comments, by Vladimir Kozhin, an aide to...

Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian protester in Gaza, Palestinian medical workers said, as demonstrators arrived for the last Friday of a six-week protest at the Gaza-Israel border. Organizers of the protest, called the "Great March of Return," said they expected tens of...

Iran Friday condemned Israel's air raids in Syria, saying they had been launched on "invented pretexts". "Iran firmly condemns the attacks by the Zionist regime on Syrian territory," foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said, cited by semi-official news agency ISNA. "The...

By  Elizabeth Tsurkov (The Forward)- Israel’s bombing campaign against dozens of Iranian, Hezbollah and Syrian Army targets across Syria last night was the most extensive Israeli operation in Israel in over 40 years. Through these strikes, Israel is signaling to Tehran that it...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has begun a global fundraising campaign after the U.S. administration reduced financial aid to the organization earlier this year.    UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl told Anadolu Agency on Thursday that...

Mahathir Mohamad, who led an opposition alliance to a surprise victory in Wednesday’s parliamentary elections, has been sworn in as seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia on Thursday.  The 92-year-old Mahathir was sworn in at a ceremony held at the State Palace.  In a...

There is a risk of crude oil prices hitting $100 per barrel next year due to tightening of supply and demand balance in global oil market, investment banking giant Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a report Thursday. Oil prices have been rising in the past few weeks due to worries...

   Iran does not want "new tensions" in the Middle East, President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday in a telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "Iran has always sought to reduce tensions in the region, trying to strengthen security and stability," Rouhani said,...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a historic summit on June 12 in Singapore where the U.S. leader will try to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons. It will be the first ever summit between the leaders of the two...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Iran's president that she supports maintaining a big-power nuclear accord, following the withdrawal of the United States, as long as Tehran upholds its side of the deal, her office said Thursday. In a telephone call with Hassan Rouhani, Merkel...

Bahrain's foreign minister, Sheikh Khalid al-Khalifa, on Thursday backed Israel's right to "defend itself" after the Israeli military said it struck dozens of Iranian military targets in Syria overnight. "As long as Iran has breached the status quo in the region and invaded countries...

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has dismissed the head of the security service and the police chief at the request of newly elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the presidential press service said on Thursday. Opposition leader Pashinyan was elected Armenia's prime minister by...