Middle East

Hamas admits kidnapping Israeli teens, the spark behind current clash
A senior Hamas leader has said the group carried out the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank in June—the first time anyone...
Islamic State releases new video showing Yazidis ‘converting’ to Islam
An Islamic State (IS) video has emerged purporting to show dozens of captured Yazidi people converting to Islam.
Slain journalist Foley subject of failed U.S. rescue attempt earlier this year
U.S. President Barack Obama sent Special Operations Forces to Syria earlier this year in an attempt to rescue James Foley and other Americans held captive...
Hamas says three senior leaders killed in Gaza
The Islamic militant group Hamas says three of its senior military leaders have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
Obama’s angered statement raises questions about second journalist’s fate
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared himself “heartbroken” by the beheading of American journalist Jim Foley by ISIL extremists, but he...
Hamas chief ‘deserves to die like bin Laden’ says Israel after air strike
An Israeli cabinet minister has said Hamas’s military leader “deserves to die just like bin Laden”, after an air strike apparently targeting...
Rockets fly as Cairo-backed Israel, Gaza peace talks collapse
Egyptian attempts to broker an end to a monthlong war between Israel and Hamas militants collapsed in heavy fighting Tuesday, with Palestinian militants...
Islamic militants claim to behead U.S. journalist
Islamic State insurgents who control territory in Iraq and Syria released a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of U.S.
Mystery airstrikes escalate Libyan divide
Libyan militiamen fired rockets into an affluent district of Tripoli early on Tuesday, moving a battle with a rival armed faction closer to the center...
Al-Qaida, Islamic State are No. 1 enemy of Islam, says top Saudi cleric
Saudi Arabia’s top cleric said Tuesday extremism and the ideologies of groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and al-Qaida...
Israel launches strikes on Gaza after Hamas ‘breaks 5-day ceasefire’
Israel says it has carried out more air strikes in the Gaza Strip after three rockets fired by Palestinian militants hit the south of the country.
Gaza ceasefire extended by 24 hours after talks in Cairo
A new 24-hour ceasefire came into effect in the Gaza Strip Tuesday after Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed to extend a five-day truce, minutes...
Iraqi and Kurdish forces recapture key Mosul Dam from Islamic militants
Iraqi security forces and Kurdish fighters have wrested back control of the country’s largest dam from the hands of Islamic militants who captured...
After 2-week struggle, U.S.-backed fighters reclaim Iraq’s largest dam
Iraqi Kurdish fighters backed by U.S. warplanes retook the country’s largest dam from jihadists on Sunday, as Sunni Arab tribesmen and security forces...
Fighting ISIL: Peshmerga make gains at Mosul Dam as Syria bombs Raqqa
An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant checkpoint and 19 vehicles have been destroyed in 14 air strikes that were part of a joint operation...
Israel must accept Palestinian demands or face long war: Hamas
Hamas rejected on Saturday as insufficient offers made in Cairo to Palestinian negotiators seeking to end Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, and...
With U.S. aid, Kurds fight to retake Iraq’s largest dam after ‘massacre’
Kurdish forces backed by US warplanes battled on Saturday to retake Iraq’s largest dam from jihadist fighters, a day after militants carried out...
Air strikes launched in effort to retake dam from Islamic State forces
A day after Islamic State insurgents massacred 80 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority in a village in the country’s north, retaliation has come...
Iraqi PM relinquishes power as U.S. readies to bring home military personnel
Embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has agreed to step aside and support his nominated replacement in the post, Shiite lawmakers told The Associated...
Off to shaky start, Gaza truce holds with a five-day extension
Millions in Gaza and southern Israel on Thursday enjoyed a welcome extension to a temporary truce despite a rocky start that saw a flurry of rocket fire...
Rescue mission for Iraq’s Yazidis now ‘less likely’ as UN declares emergency
A U.S. mission to evacuate Iraqi civilians trapped on a mountain by Sunni militant fighters is far less likely after a U.S.
Amid rescue mission talk, Islamic militants grab new weapon: Iraqi wheat
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have overrun large areas in five of Iraq’s most fertile provinces, where the U.N.
Fresh strikes follow five-day Gaza truce extension
Israel has launched air strikes on Gaza after being targeted by rocket fire, just as agreement had been reached on extending a truce by five days.
Clock ticks down to end of Gaza truce deadline as negotiators meet in Cairo
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are meeting via Egyptian intelligence officials for their last day of talks before the current truce for fighting in...
Israel slams UN’s ‘kangaroo court’ Gaza war crime investigation panel
The United Nations on Monday named experts to an international commission of inquiry into possible human rights violations and war crimes committed by...
Constitutional crisis: Power struggle as Iraq PM is replaced but refuses to go
Embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki rejected a transition to Haidar al-Abadi as his successor, escalating political tensions in Baghdad amid...
U.S. to provide weapons to Kurds as Iraq’s new president snubs PM
The Obama administration has begun directly providing weapons to Kurdish forces who have started to make gains against Islamic militants in Iraq.
Iraqi Prime Minister to sue new president for ‘constitutional violation’
Iraq’s embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says he will file a legal complaint against the new president, Fouad Massoum, for committing “clear...
Israel accepts new 72-hour, Egypt-brokered Gaza cease-fire
Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Sunday to an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour cease-fire in Gaza, officials from the warring sides said.
Reports: Kurdish forces rescue 5,000 Yazidi from Sinjar Mountain
Iraqi Kurdish security forces have opened a road to Sinjar Mountain in northwestern Iraq, rescuing more than 5,000 Yazidis trapped there, Al Jazeera reports.

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