Middle East

Palestinians set fire to a Jewish shrine in the West Bank on Friday as the Islamist group Hamas called for…

Syrian troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, attacked insurgent fighters south of Aleppo on Friday, a source in…

The US military is poised to boost its supply runs to rebels fighting Islamic State jihadists in northern Syria, a…

The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday over the recent surge of violence between Israelis and…

Israel has announced plans to build a “security wall” along its border with the blockaded Gaza Strip, Israeli state radio…

Iran has given the UN nuclear watchdog what it needs to assess whether Tehran's past activities had anything to do…

Iraqi forces and Shi'ite militia fighters recaptured most of the country’s largest oil refinery from Islamic State militants on Thursday,…

European Union negotiators have made good progress in talks with Turkey on cooperation on aiding Syrian refugees and stemming the…

Cars are double- and even triple-parked outside a gun shop in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv.

Ten more people have been detained in connection with messages they wrote on Twitter about the suicide bombings which killed…