Middle East
U.S. sticks to demand Assad leave power at first peace talks to include Iran
Washington stuck to its demand on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leave power, ahead of peace talks which will include Assad\'s ...China decides to drop 1-child policy, allow 2 children
China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of a strict one-child policy, the ...Iran accepts invitation to Syria peace talks in Vienna
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and three of his deputies will attend multilateral talks on Friday in Vienna that seek to ...Saudi-led coalition drops weapons for allies in Yemen
Warplanes from a Saudi-led alliance bombed the Iran-allied Houthi movement throughout Yemen on Wednesday and dropped weapons for its allies battling the ...Two policemen, seven Islamic State militants killed in Turkey
Two Turkish policemen and seven Islamic State militants were killed in a firefight after police raided more than a dozen houses in ...Israel and Jordan strike deal on Jerusalem holy site
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday sketched out steps, including Israeli-Jordanian video surveillance, he hopes may ease tensions over a ...Israeli-Palestinian clashes persist as diplomats push for peace
Stone-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip during "Day of Rage" protests on ...Two US Predator drones crash in Iraq, Turkey
The US Air Force lost control of two Predator drones in separate incidents recently in Turkey and Iraq, a US military official ...US deploys ground-attack A-10 planes to Turkey
The US military has deployed a dozen A-10 ground-attack planes to the air base at Incirlik in southern Turkey, a US official ...Gunman kills Israeli soldier as diplomats seek calm
Israel was to voice its opposition Monday to French proposals to send international observers to Jerusalem\'s Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the latest in ...




