Trump plays up Middle East peace hopes after talks with Palestinian president
BETHLEHEM, West Bank U.S. President Donald Trump talked up the prospects of peace between Israelis and Palestinians on Tuesday, saying he believed both sides were committed to an historic deal, but he offered no concrete proposals on how to get there. | Video
Iran condemns UK attack, criticizes Western security ties to Gulf
LONDON Iran condemned a suicide attack at a pop concert in Manchester that killed 22 people, but in an apparent swipe at Western security cooperation with Gulf Arab states said "artificial alliances" would not eliminate such threats.
If Kushner has a Mideast peace plan, it's a secret so far
JERUSALEM If Jared Kushner has a plan to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict, so far he's giving little away.
New bridge reunites Mosul as Iraqi forces gear up for final assault
BAGHDAD Iraqi military engineers installed a new floating bridge across the Tigris river on Wednesday, reconnecting the two halves of Mosul to facilitate troop deployments ahead of a final assault to dislodge Islamic State.
Bahrain security forces raid home of Shi'ite spiritual leader
DUBAI Bahraini security forces on Tuesday raided the home of the kingdom's top Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader and arrested a number of people, activists and a security official said.
India says it attacked Pakistan army posts in divided Kashmir
NEW DELHI India said on Tuesday it had attacked and damaged Pakistani army posts in Kashmir as it sought to prevent militants infiltrating from the Pakistani side of the disputed region, but Pakistan denied the assertion.
Car bomb explodes, kills four in Syria's Homs: state TV
BEIRUT A car bomb exploded in Homs on Tuesday morning, Syrian state television said, two days after the city went back under full government control for the first time since 2011.
Trump calls Nazi Holocaust 'history's darkest hour'
JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump paid tribute at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial on Tuesday to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, calling it an indescribable act of evil.
France says not planning to reopen embassy in Syria
(In this May 22 story, corrects second reference to embassy closure to 2012 in paragraph 8.)
Seven al Qaeda militants killed in Special Forces raid in Yemen: U.S. military
WASHINGTON Seven militants were killed during an intelligence-gathering raid by U.S. Special Forces troops against an al Qaeda compound in Yemen on Tuesday morning, U.S. officials said.