A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle in the town of Al-Qaim in western Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, five of them security personnel, police said.

More than 1,000 Saudi medical students ordered to leave Canada because of a diplomatic row have been granted an extension that would allow them to complete their training, Ottawa has confirmed.

An Israeli court has for the first time recognized as legal a settlement established on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, court officials said Tuesday.

U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen is not "unconditional," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday, as he defended America's ongoing role in the war.

An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced six defendants to death for a fatal attack on a police checkpoint northwest of Cairo in 2016, judicial officials said.

Iran's military attache to Damascus told Iranian media on Tuesday that the country's military advisers would remain in Syria under a defense agreement signed this week.

The U.N. peace envoy for Syria will host senior officials from a range of Western and Middle-Eastern countries next month for talks on drafting a new Syrian constitution, the U.N. said Tuesday.

Moscow is reinforcing its military presence in the Mediterranean near Syria, Russian media reported Tuesday, as speculation grows that Damascus is planning a Russian-backed offensive on rebel-held Idlib province.

A truce has been reached after deadly clashes erupted between rival militias in Tripoli, a security source said Tuesday as residents reported calm had returned to Libyan capital.

Four years after announcing its cross-border "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria, a stinging string of defeats has pushed the Islamic State jihadist group to reorganize and change strategy to survive.