Middle East
Islamic militants seize 2 northern Syrian towns
Islamic extremists captured two key towns and several villages near Syria\'s northern border with Turkey on Wednesday after pushing out rival fighters ...Israelis, Palestinians begin new talks to end Gaza war
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed indirect talks mediated by Egypt on Monday to end a month-old Gaza war, Egypt\'s state news agency ...Power struggle on Baghdad streets as Maliki replaced but refuses to go
Iraq\'s president named a new prime minister to end Nuri al-Maliki\'s eight-year rule on Monday, but the veteran leader refused to go ...Israel, Palestinians launch new three-day truce
Israel and the Palestinians held their fire early on Monday at the start of a new 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egypt that ...ISIS militants kill hundreds of Yazidis in Iraq, bury some alive
Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq\'s Yazidi minority in northern Iraq, burying some of their victims alive ...Passenger plane crashes in Iran, at least 38 dead
An Iranian passenger plane crashed Sunday moments after takeoff from Tehran, killing at least 38 on board and narrowly avoiding many more ...Turkey votes in landmark presidential election
Turks voted Sunday in their first direct presidential election, a watershed event in the country\'s 91-year history that could cement Prime Minister ...US launches four airstrikes against Islamic militants in Iraq
The U.S. military says American jet fighters and drones have conducted four more airstrikes on Islamic militants in Iraq, taking out armored ...Women stoned to death in Syria for adultery
A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters ...Yemen militants shoot 14 soldiers, drone kills three al Qaeda suspects
Reuters) – An al Qaeda-affiliated group in Yemen said it killed 14 soldiers in an eastern province as revenge for an army ...




