September 27, 2017 Jerusalem violence leaves three dead, close to 400 injured Violence broke out near a Jerusalem holy site on Friday after Israeli forces restricted entrance to a sensitive shrine following a terror attack by Palestinian militants.
September 27, 2017 Palestinian fatally stabs 3 Israelis after deadly clashes near Jerusalem holy site A Palestinian assailant snuck into a home in a West Bank settlement Friday and stabbed three Israelis to death, the head of the country's rescue services said.
September 27, 2017 Abbas asks for US to intervene in holy shrine tension in Jerusalem Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asked the United States to intervene in a current strife with Israeli officials over metal detectors in a long-contested shrine near the Lion’s Gate in Jerusalem.
September 27, 2017 Errant US bombing kills 12 Afghan security forces, officials say An errant U.S. airstrike confirmed by the Pentagon killed 12 Afghan National Police officers and wounded two others, Helmand provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar Safi said Saturday.
September 27, 2017 Amid flaring tensions, Israel installs cameras at holy site Israel set up new security cameras Sunday at the entrance to a sensitive Jerusalem holy site as officials consider alternatives to recently installed metal detectors that set off a weekend of violence and prompted the Palestinian president to declare a severing of ties.
September 27, 2017 Shooting at Israeli Embassy in Jordan kills 2 At least one person is dead and another injured after an attack at the Israeli embassy in Jordan, report said.
September 27, 2017 ISIS in Iraq had ingredients for dirty bombs, report finds The Washington Post has a scoop on a terrifying near-miss in Mosul, Iraq.
September 27, 2017 Car bomb in Pakistan kills at least 22 At least 22 people were killed and dozens of others were wounded in Pakistan on Monday after a car bomb exploded in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said.
September 27, 2017 Trump sends Middle East envoy to Jerusalem to ease escalating tensions over holy site The latest round violence that has plagued the region for more than a week has spilled over into neighboring Jordan, and could further complicate international efforts to lower tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in the Holy Land.
September 26, 2017 Syrians describe torture inside Assad prisons: 'Death is much better than this' While much of the bloody Syrian civil war is played out to the world on social media – the falling bombs, the gun shots, the chemical attacks and the refugees flooding borders – there’s another much more silent war engulfing the devastated country.
