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The US and Turkey have begun following up on their agreement last week on northeast Syria—the area liberated from the Islamic State and now administered by the Kurdish-led...

With Boris Johnson as the UK’s new prime minister, the country has joined the US maritime security initiative to protect international shipping in the Persian Gulf.

Scores of Palestinians injured amid protests after hundreds of settlers allowed into the compound on Jewish holiday

On Wednesday, the US and Turkey announced an agreement on northeast Syria, averting the immediate prospect of a Turkish cross-border assault that had hung over the negotiations.

US and Turkish military officials on Monday ended their first day of discussion on the future of northeast Syria. The talks are continuing on Tuesday.

Iraqi forces, with the support of US-led coalition aircraft, launched parallel military operations on Monday to eliminate remnants of the Islamic State in different parts of the Diyala and Nineveh provinces.

Israeli planes have attacked Iranian targets in Iraq twice over the past two weeks.

Israeli police summoned a Palestinian father for his four-year-old son's alleged stone throwing

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Two hotels in the Christian quarter of the Old City in occupied East Jerusalem are to be taken over by a group of Jewish settlers. It is a part of their long...