[wpResize]  • Israeli army raids Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Nablus • Abbas says has no information Hamas abducted teens • Four Palestinians killed since Israeli search began RAMALLAH, West Bank: Israeli troops killed two Palestinians on Sunday, Palestinian medics

[wpResize] RAMALLAH, West Bank: The United Nations cultural agency has listed the Palestinian village of Battir as a World Heritage site in danger, raising hopes among residents Saturday that this will protect their community against Israel’s West Bank separation barrier.

[wpResize] CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed the death sentences of more than 180 alleged Islamists, including the top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, lawyers said. Lawyers say the ruling can be overturned on appeal. It was not immediately

[wpResize] Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The

[wpResize] An Egyptian court confirmed death sentences on Saturday against the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 182 supporters, in a mass trial of Islamists who ruled Egypt for a year but face a fierce crackdown under the new president,

Syrian jets bombed on Saturday rebel-held eastern areas close to the border with Iraq under the control of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, killing and injuring dozens in stepped up raids against the militant group since its

[wpResize] Islamist websites published an al Qaeda statement on Saturday denying claims by Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi that the vast majority of its fighters in the troubled country are foreigners. In April, Yemeni troops began an offensive into

[wpResize] Israel sent more troops to the occupied West Bank on Saturday to search for three missing teenagers it says were abducted by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. The military said it arrested 10 Palestinians on Saturday and that some 1,350

[wpResize] HEBRON: Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Friday as they pressed a crackdown on Hamas in their search for three missing teenagers. Troops also wounded two Palestinians in a refugee camp just outside

[wpResize] RAMADI: Clashes with Sunni militants have killed 34 Iraqi security forces members in Al-Qaim, a town on the Syrian border, officials said Friday. The fighting broke out late Thursday night and continued until around noon Friday, with militants in

[wpResize] BEIRUT: A suicide bomber killed at least two people at a Lebanese checkpoint on the main highway from Beirut to Damascus on Friday, official media and a security source said. The attack came as members of the security forces

[wpResize] TEHRAN: Iran has sentenced to 10 years in prison a man convicted of spying for Britain and another to five years for collaborating with Israel, state news agency IRNA said Friday. The report did not say whether the unidentified

[wpResize] BEIRUT: Fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Friday captured key towns in eastern Syria adjoining territory the Al-Qaeda splinter group has seized in Iraq, a monitoring organization said. The Islamists, whose stated aim