The Israeli military said soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian after he attempted to run over them with his vehicle Friday. No Israelis were wounded in the attack, which took place north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Qatar denied Thursday that it plans to quit the Gulf Cooperation Council as it prepares to mark three years of isolation led by the regional bloc's heavyweight Saudi Arabia.
Turkish mosques reopened Friday for mass prayers more than two months after they had shutdown, as the government eased restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus.
Daesh in an audio message blasted Iraq’s new prime minister, calling him an "American agent," and criticized the closure of Islam’s holiest shrine in the Saudi holy city of Mecca to limit the spread of coronavirus.
Saudi Arabia confirmed it will host a virtual donors conference next week for Yemen together with the United Nations which said the conflict-riven nation...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party is planning to push through measures with its nationalist allies that affect how political groups may contest...
As Turkish drones helped drive eastern Libyan forces back from Tripoli this month, Russia was said to be reinforcing them with warplanes, raising the stakes...
President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's defense and foreign ministries to hold talks with Syria for Moscow to obtain additional facilities and maritime...
The coronavirus pandemic and Lebanon’s ongoing economic collapse risk depriving many children in the country of the right to education, Save the Children...
Prime Minister Hassan Diab said Friday that the Lebanese Army will step up its efforts to put an end to cross-border smuggling with Syria.
Anger over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man in police custody, spread beyond Minneapolis Thursday, with looting and fires set along a major St.
New Zealand had all but eradicated the coronavirus from its shores Friday with just one person in the nation of 5 million known to be still infected, but...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced Friday the US police killing of an unarmed black man as "racist" and "fascist".
The Venezuelan navy said it escorted a fourth tanker bringing Iranian fuel through its waters Thursday, while the United States called the shipments to the...
The European Union is prolonging for another year its sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad and other top political officials, military officers and...
Kuwait will ease its full-time curfew, to be a 12-hour one during night, the interior minister said in a press conference after the cabinet meeting Thursday.
UN agencies trying to help the millions at risk from the conflict in Yemen are nearly broke, UN aid chief Mark Lowcock said Thursday, announcing a drive to...
Hundreds of Tunisians protested Thursday in at least seven cities to demand jobs, heaping pressure on a government facing the worse economic crisis in more...
The US embassy in Israel issued a security alert for the Palestinian territories on Thursday, amid increased tensions over the Jewish state's plans to annex...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley will remain in what he described as an "enclave" after...
Israel has launched a campaign to test 100,000 people for novel coronavirus antibodies as the country prepares for a possible "second wave" of cases, a top...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned the United States Thursday against its naval presence in the Gulf as they received 110 new combat vessels.
Iran's parliament elected a former mayor of Tehran tied to the Revolutionary Guard as its next speaker Thursday, solidifying hard-line control of the body as...
Israel's national cyber chief Thursday officially acknowledged the country had thwarted a major cyber attack last month against its water systems, an assault...
The United States said Wednesday it was ending waivers in its sanctions for nations that remain in the Iran nuclear accord, bringing the deal further to the...
When Turkey had the highest number of coronavirus cases outside of Europe and the US in April, there were fears its health system could be overwhelmed and its...
The number of coronavirus cases in the six Gulf Arab states doubled in less than a month to surpass 200,000 on Wednesday, according to a Reuters' tally, at a...
France's threats and interference have complicated the case of a French-Iranian academic jailed in Iran, a spokesman for the Islamic Republic's foreign...
The Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen said its forces intercepted and downed a drone launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement towards the Saudi border...
The Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Occupied Jerusalem will reopen Sunday after a two-month closure due to the novel coronavirus, a senior official said Wednesday.
Iran’s president urged his Cabinet Wednesday to speed up harsher laws in so-called honor killings, after a particularly disturbing slaying of a 14-year-old...
An eerie silence has fallen over Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, one of the world's oldest, largest and most visited markets, where a raucous mixture of languages,...
Six militants were killed Wednesday in an explosion that hit their arms depot in northwest Syria while Russian warplanes flew overhead, a war monitoring group...