Baghdad says will turn to UN Security Council after Turkish president insists soldiers to remain in camp near ISIS-held Mosul.

A few hours later, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin had been talking about weapons supplies to the armed forces loyal to Assad.

Sisterhood of Salaam-Shalom conference attracts record crowd of women from two faiths working to build bridges, but Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains ‘elephant in the room.’

The protest against the natural-gas deal is focused on its economic aspects at the expense of other, equally urgent issues.

Ayman Odeh says he refused to meet Jewish community leaders at a Jewish Agency building in New York due to the agency's historical role in the expropriation of Palestinian land.

'We insist on equality, not just at the Kotel — the Western Wall — but also in rabbinical courts, under the bridal canopy, at funerals and conversions,' Rabbi Rick Jacobs of the Union for Reform Judaism said.

The military has kept F16s for 30 years and helicopters and personnel carriers for half a century.

After court strikes down 'unconstitutional deal,' government says won't appeal decision.