Kurdish rebels hail as 'historic' a call for disarmament made by their jailed leader for disarmament and say Turkey should speed up reforms to move the peace process forward
Iran's foreign minister has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to undermine Iran's negotiations towards a nuclear deal with world powers in order to distract from the Palestinian question
Military and political opposition forces in Aleppo reject UN envoy Staffan de Mistura's proposal of a temporary cease-fire in the northern Syrian city
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura pays a surprise visit to a church near war-wracked Syria's capital in a show of solidarity with the country's Christian minority targeted by jihadis
Syria's exiled opposition praises France for maintaining its 'exemplary' opposition to President Bashar Assad after a group of French lawmakers made a...
A U.S.-backed Syrian rebel group under attack by Nusra Front fighters Sunday announces that it was dissolving itself and joining a larger Islamist alliance...
Israeli police say the owner of Beitar Jerusalem FC was wounded after he was shot by unidentified gunmen
Newly published emails suggest the man who became known as 'Jihadi John' had suicidal thoughts before leaving Britain for Syria
Prime Minister Tammam Salam will announce the formulation of a new decision making system in the Cabinet within the next couple of days, he said in comments...
Assyrian Christians fleeing ISIS are welcome to take refuge in Lebanon because their humanitarian case in exceptional, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said.
Two people have been killed by shelling in east Ukraine as isolated clashes rattled a shaky truce with pro-Russian rebels and observers warned the country was...
Supporters of Boris Nemtsov were preparing to march through Moscow in an outpouring of anger and grief at the brutal murder of the opposition leader and...
Italy will begin annual naval exercises this week near the coast of Libya, where a breakdown in order has allowed tens of thousands of migrants to try to...
Activists say efforts are under way to try to negotiate the release of more than 220 Syrian Christians who were kidnapped last week by ISIS, although no...
A Palestinian activist says 80 percent of West Bank shops no longer carry products from six major Israel food companies, as a boycott takes hold
The United Arab Emirates attorney general says the case of a woman accused of stabbing an American teacher to death in an Abu Dhabi mall restroom has been...
Pope Francis has led tens of thousands of people in prayer in St. Peter's Square for Christians and others who have been kidnapped or are victims of other...
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is in Saudi Arabia for talks with the country's new king ahead of a conference aimed at shoring up financial support...
A Palestinian court postpones its verdict in the trial of exiled Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan, who is being tried in absentia on corruption charges
The first direct flight from Iran to the rebel-held Yemeni capital has arrived, as the country's Shiite rebels formalize ties with the regional Shiite...
ran could allow Internet giants such as Google to operate in the Islamic republic if they respect its 'cultural' rules, Fars news agency says
Kurdish rebels reject a call for them to lay down their arms, saying Turkey's government must first take steps to advance democracy and withdraw a...
Syria's state news agency says the government and the U.N. special envoy have agreed to send a fact-finding mission to the contested northern city of Aleppo
Israel's prime minister says he is delivering a contentious speech to the U.S. Congress out of a 'deep and genuine concern' for Israel's security
An Egyptian court has ruled as unconstitutional a clause in the election law that draws voting districts
Kuwaiti authorities are closely monitoring several relatives of 'Jihadi John' who live and work in the Gulf emirate where the ISIS executioner was born, press...
Bahrain's public prosecutor has charged 17 people with forming a militant group and carrying out bombings that wounded security personnel, the state news...
The U.N. mission to Iraq says violence in the country claimed the lives of at least 1,100 Iraqis in February, including more than 600 civilians
Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Saturday that "scaremongering" by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won't stop the Islamic Republic and world...
A suicide truck bomb killed at least 11 Iraqi forces south of Tikrit Saturday during operations paving the way for an assault on the jihadist-held city, the...
A young Palestinian was killed and his brother seriously wounded in an explosion on Saturday near the Gaza Strip's abandoned airport, the health ministry said.
An Egyptian court on Saturday declared Hamas a "terrorist" organization, a judicial source said, weeks after the Palestinian Islamist movement's armed wing...
UN peace envoy Staffan de Mistura hopes to finalise a deal to freeze fighting in war-ravaged second city Aleppo during talks Saturday with the Syrian...