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Hundreds of Israeli police for the second time dismantled a Palestinian protest encampment on the outskirts of Jerusalem overnight, activists and police said Sunday.
Activists set up the camp, known as Bab al-Shams, on a patch of land known as E1,...
US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iraq to stop allowing Iranian flights apparently carrying military equipment through its airspace headed to Syria, on a surprise visit to Baghdad Sunday.
Kerry warned Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that...
US Secretary of State John Kerry made a surprise trip to Baghdad on Sunday to press for more help over the conflict in Syria amid claims of waning American clout barely a year after US troops left.
The one-day visit, the first to Iraq by a US...
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Saturday was without a government after the surprise resignation of premier Najib Mikati and as it battled deep divisions fuelled by the civil war in neighboring Syria.
The head of the government in which the Shiite...
Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the Dostour Party and a leader of the National Salvation Front, bemoaned the violence that broke out between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and opponents Friday in several locations, while former presidential candidate...
The US Central Intelligence Agency has been feeding information to select rebel fighters in Syria to try to make them more effective against government troops, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
Citing unnamed current and former US...
Syrian rebels have gained ground in the Golan Heights, which is partly occupied by Israel, launching coordinated attacks in the area and in nearby Daraa province, a watchdog said on Thursday.
"It appears that the rebels launched coordinated...
North Korea has produced another video showing the United States under attack, this time with the White House and the US Capitol literally in the crosshairs.
The four-minute video titled “Firestorms Will Rain on the Headquarters of War"...
Israeli forces on Tuesday razed four temporary structures in two West Bank settler outposts, police said, in an operation just 36 hours before a visit by US President Barack Obama.
The overnight operation targeted structures in the outposts of Or...
Pope Francis knelt at the tomb of St Peter and donned the symbols of papal power at a sumptuous inauguration on Tuesday, vowing to embrace the "poorest, the weakest" of humanity.
Nearly 200,000 pilgrims cheered Latin America's first...
