Turkey's president has sparked an acute diplomatic spat with far-off New Zealand and Australia, referring to a key World War I campaign and the more recent Christchurch mosque shooting as targeting Islam

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has given Israel's leader a welcome boost at the height of a tight re-election campaign

Israel's right-wing justice minister has released a headline-grabbing political advertisement ahead of April elections in which she mocks her critics by modeling a faux perfume called "Fascism."

Turkey's president showed parts of a video taken by the attacker who killed 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand to comment on what he called rising Islamophobia

Israel's Supreme Court has banned the leader of a Jewish ultranationalist party from running in the country's April elections

The main challenger to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his heated race for re-election is trying to play down an embarrassing phone-hacking scandal that erupted just as the ex-general is sliding in opinion polls

Israel's military says Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets toward Tel Aviv, and the Israeli prime minister convened an urgent meeting with senior military officials to discuss a response

Iran elects newly appointed head of judiciary as deputy chief of clerical panel tasked with naming supreme leader

Israel's attorney general says he will only release material from the investigations into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the country's April 9 national elections

Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has come to the rescue of a fellow Israeli celebrity in a spat with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu