Middle East
Thousands protest at Israel-Gaza fence amid cease-fire deal
Thousands of Palestinians thronged the perimeter fence between Israel and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip as the weekly, bloody demonstrations rolled into their ...Israel reopens Gaza crossings closed for days after rocket strike
Israel reopened its crossings with the blockaded Gaza Strip after having kept them closed for nearly a week following a rare long-distance ...Tens of thousands protest at Gaza-Israel border on anniversary in test of truce
Thousands of Palestinian protesters gathered along the Gaza-Israel border to mark the first anniversary of mass demonstrations for the right of return ...Israeli airstrike kills Iranian, 6 Iraqi fighters in Syria
Israel confirmed Thursday it carried out an airstrike the night before in northern Syria while a war monitoring group said the attack ...Syria requests urgent UN Security Council meeting on Golan
Syria asked the United Nations Security Counci to hold an urgent meeting on the US decision to recognize the Golan Heights as ...Israel, Gaza militants in 2nd day of cross-border fighting
Israeli aircraft bombed targets across the Gaza Strip and Gaza militants fired rockets into Israel, the second day of cross-border fighting that ...Gaza rocket strikes home in central Israel
An early morning rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck a house in central Israel on Monday, wounding seven people and prompting ...Iraq parliament votes to sack official after ferry sinking
Iraq\'s parliament voted to sack a provincial official following the tragic sinking of a ferry in the Tigris River that killed nearly ...US-backed Syrian force declares victory over Islamic State
U.S.-backed forces declared military victory over the Islamic State group in Syria after liberating the last pocket of territory held by the ...Trump says IS territory in Syria nearly eliminated
President Donald Trump says the last of the Islamic State\'s territory in Syria will be freed by U.S.-backed forces "by tonight."




