Middle East
Tension in Jerusalem inflamed after Israeli police shoot Palestinian gunman
Israeli police on Thursday shot dead a 32-year-old Palestinian man suspected of having tried hours earlier to kill a far-right Jewish activist, leading...
150 Iraqi Sunnis killed by IS found in mass grave near Ramadi
The bodies of 150 members of an Iraqi Sunni tribe opposed to Islamic State (IS) have reportedly been found in a mass grave.
Iran could get iPhones as relations with the West thaw
Apple has reportedly met with Iranian distributors at its regional headquarters in London as it looks to expand into the country.
Israeli closure of Al-Aqsa mosque is a ‘declaraton of war’, rages Abbas
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the closure of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque as a “declaration of war”.
Al-Qaeda asks IS militants to rejoin group and fight West, says analyst
U.S. intelligence analysts are closely watching al-Qaeda’s overtures to the renegade Islamic State to reunite and fight the West.
On isolated Gaza’s southern flank, an Egyptian buffer zone takes shape
Egypt began demolishing houses along its border with Gaza on Wednesday to set up a buffer zone to prevent militant infiltration and arms smuggling following...
American couple held in Qatar speaks: ‘We are being kidnapped’
An American couple feels trapped and abandoned by the U.S. government as they await a possible death sentence following the death of their daughter in...
New offensive: Syria rebels cross from Turkey to join Kobani battle
A group of fighters from the rebel Free Syrian Army crossed into Syria from Turkey on Wednesday to join Kurdish fighters defending the border town of Kobani...
Kurdish fighters convoy across Turkish border in key move to defend Kobane
Heavily armed Kurdish peshmerga fighters set off from their base in northern Iraq Tuesday to support militia forces defending the Syrian border town of...
U.N. concerned by a ‘surge of executions’ in Iran
At least 850 people have been executed in Iran in the past 15 months as part of a worsening human rights situation under reformist President Hassan Rouhani,...
Hostage John Cantlie used as IS ‘news reporter’ inside war-torn Kobane
A new video that appears to show Islamic State (IS) hostage John Cantlie in Kobane was released Monday, with the British captive warning that the battle...
Netanyahu’ plans for 1,000 new settler homes in East Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will expedite planning for some 1,000 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a government official said on Monday,...
Car bombings in Iraq kill 38
Two car bombings in Iraq, including one where a suicide attacker drove a Humvee into a checkpoint manned by Iraqi troops and pro-government Shiite militiamen,...
28 killed and 60 injured by suicide bomber south of Baghdad
A suicide car bomber struck a checkpoint manned by Iraqi troops and pro-government Shi’ite militiamen south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least...
Saudi women’s driving campaign passes the test
Activists pushing for women’s right-to-drive in Saudi Arabia have declared their online campaign a success, in the world’s only country where...
Kurds fend off Islamic State fighters in latest attack on Kobane crossing
Kurdish forces in the Syrian town of Kobane thwarted a new attempt by fighters from the Islamic State group Sunday to cut off the border with Turkey before...
U.S. Marines and British combat forces end Afghan operations
The American and British flags were lowered and folded for the final time at Camp Bastion on Sunday, 13 years after the toppling of the Taliban’s radical...
Iraqi, Kurdish troops push back against Baghdad-bound IS militants
Iraqi government forces and Shi’ite militias seized control of the strategic town of Jurf al-Sakhar near Baghdad from Islamic State on Saturday and...
Lebanon army attacks gunmen in historic Tripoli market
Lebanese troops attacked Islamist gunmen holed up in the historic market of the northern city of Tripoli Saturday, after deadly clashes rocked the longtime...
Iran hangs woman despite international campaign
A 26-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she said had tried to rape her as a teenager was hanged on Saturday, despite international pleas...
Israel troops kill U.S.-Palestinian teen in West Bank
Washington confirmed that a Palestinian teenager shot dead by Israeli troops was a U.S.
Egypt declares emergency in northern Sinai after worst attack in decades
A coordinated assault on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula killed 30 Egyptian troops on Friday, making it the deadliest single attack in decades...
Tunisian special forces storm house after 28-hr. standoff; 6 ‘terrorists’ dead
Tunisian police killed six suspected militants, five of them women, in a raid on a suburban house Friday after a 28-hour standoff, fanning tensions ahead...
French air strikes ‘wipe out’ IS weapons arsenal in Iraq
French fighter jets destroyed 12 buildings in Iraq holding an arsenal of weapons under control of Islamic State militants, France’s chief of staff...
U.S. investigating report that Islamic State used chlorine gas
American security officials said Thursday that they were looking into a new report that Islamic State (IS) militants had used chlorine gas as a weapon...
Islamic State raking in millions on oil sales, now world’s richest terror group
Islamic State militants are amassing wealth at an unprecedented pace, earning about $1 million a day from black market oil sales alone, a U.S.
Month of U.S.-led air strikes ‘has killed 521 IS fighters and 32 civilians’ in Syria
Air strikes by U.S.-led forces have killed 521 Islamist fighters and 32 civilians during a month-long campaign in Syria, a monitoring group which tracks...
Car plows into train station in tense east Jerusalem; baby girl killed
A Palestinian motorist with a history of anti-Israel violence slammed his car into a crowded train station in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing a 3-month-old...
Iraqi Kurds approve sending troops to fight Islamic State in embattled Kobane
Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers approved a plan on Wednesday to send fighters to the Syrian town of Kobane to relieve fellow Kurds under attack by Islamic State...
Israel, the promised land for vegans
Israelis are flocking to veganism, to the point where even the army now has options for vegan soldiers and vegan militants woo converts by comparing meat...
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