Thousands of Israelis led by at least seven Cabinet ministers marched Monday to an evacuated West Bank settlement, in a defiant signal that Israel’s most right-wing government in history is determined to accelerate settlement building on occupied lands despite international opposition. The...

A deadly land mine explosion in Syria killed at least six people on Sunday, according to state media. News agency SANA said the explosion hit civilians who were foraging for truffles in the countryside, and blamed the incident on a land mine planted by the Islamic State group in the southern...

A Syrian child was killed and three others injured on Sunday in regime shelling of the northwestern Idlib province, according to local sources. The artillery shelling targeted the town of Sarmin, southeast of Idlib, by regime forces stationed in the city of Saraqib, southwest of Idlib,...

 Israeli warplanes and artillery struck targets in Syria following rare rocket fire from the northeastern neighbor, as Jewish-Muslim tensions reached a peak Sunday at a volatile Jerusalem shrine with simultaneous religious rituals. Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at the city's...

Staffers of the UN refugee agency UNRWA staged a general strike in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to protest the agency’s lack of response to demands for recruitment of new employees. “All UNRWA facilities went on a general strike,” Azmi Radwan, head of the labor sector in the UNRWA’s Arab...

CIA Director Bill Burns paid an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia, expressing frustration about Riyadh’s recent rapprochement with Iran, according to a report. Burns told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that the US felt "blindsided" by Riyadh’s rapprochement with Iran and Syria --...

The US has strongly condemned deadly terrorist attacks in Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank. “We extend our deepest condolences to the victims’ families and loved ones, and wish a full recovery to the injured,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said in a statement late Friday....

The U.S. Navy has deployed a guided-missile submarine capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk missiles to the Middle East, a spokesman said Saturday, in what appeared to be a show of force toward Iran following recent tensions. The Navy rarely acknowledges the location or deployment of...

The commander of the main U.S.-backed force in Syria and Iraq’s presidency Saturday condemned what they say was a Turkish attack on an airport in northern Iraq. The condemnation came as the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces confirmed Saturday that its chief commander,...

The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the possible release of Pentagon documents that were posted on several social media sites and appear to detail U.S. and NATO aid to Ukraine, but may have been altered or used as part of a misinformation campaign. The documents, which...

Saudi Arabia on Friday signed a $240 million loan agreement with Pakistan to support the Mohmand Dam project in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, official said. The agreement was signed at a ceremony in the capital Islamabad and attended by Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf bin Said...

Israel’s police commissioner on Friday called on Israeli settlers who have firearms licenses to carry their guns for now amid tension with Palestinians. Kobi Shabtai made the remarks following an attack near the Hamra settlement in the northern West Bank which left two Israeli settlers dead...

Two female Israeli settlers were killed and a third was seriously injured on Friday in an attack in the northern occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Israeli army said the attack was on the settlers' car and took place near the settlement of Hamra in the northern West Bank. Israeli...

The Israeli army on Thursday said that at least 30 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel. In a statement, the Israeli army said its Iron Dome air defense system intercepted 15 of the rockets fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel. The army added that it has closed its...

BEIJING (AP) — Iran and Saudia Arabia have agreed to jointly pursue economic stability, the Iranian foreign minister said Thursday, as well as reopen missions in their respective countries as the regional rivals stepped toward reconciliation after seven years of tension. Iranian Foreign...

The Arab League will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss Israeli escalation at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in East Jerusalem. The meeting was called by Jordan, in cooperation with Egypt and Palestine, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The meeting “will be...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has closed its airspace to flights to and from an airport in Kurdish-administered northern Iraq, a top Turkish official announced Wednesday, citing an alleged increase in Kurdish militant activity threatening flight safety. The airspace was closed Tuesday to...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Guinea-Bissau flagged cargo ship with 14 crew members on board sank off Turkey’s Mediterranean coast on Wednesday, killing at least three of them. Five people were rescued while efforts continued to find the other missing crew, officials and news reports said. The Joe...

The Syria Response Coordinators Team confirmed the high percentage of families under the poverty line, which contributed to raising the hunger limit in the northwestern regions of Syria. The relief team said that the poverty limit rose to the value of 5,018 Turkish liras, while the extreme...

Suspected Israeli airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks have killed two Iranian military advisers, temporarily put the country’s two largest airports out of service, and raised fears of regional escalation. While Israel has fought a shadow war with Iran in Syria for years, it has intensified...