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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has declined to answer a question about a detained Washington Post journalist. In a news conference Saturday, a journalist asked a question that mentioned the detention of journalist Jason Rezaian...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say a body has been found in the same area where a U.S. religious student disappeared last week. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said authorities were in the process of identifying the body. The body was found in the Jerusalem Forest, the same area where seminary student Aharon Sofer disappeared last week while hiking...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One year ago, President Barack Obama was barreling toward airstrikes in Syria when he abruptly announced that he first wanted approval from congressional lawmakers. The move threw his policy into confusion and the strikes were eventually scrapped...

Fighting has lasted for 7 weeks, killing 2200 in the process.

LONDON (AP) — Britain's ambassador to the United States says police and spy agencies are close to identifying the English-accented militant depicted on video showing the killing of U.S. journalist James Foley. Peter Westmacott told CNN Sunday that "we're not far away" from naming the man in the Islamic State group video...

Another captured journalist in video is threatened if the President doesn't stop air strikes.

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli official says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered negotiators at cease-fire talks to return home from Cairo following rocket fire by Palestinian militants. The Israeli move, coupled with the outbreak of violence, threw Egyptian efforts to arrange a long-term cease-fire into jeopardy...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's top cleric says extremism and the ideologies of groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaida are Islam's top enemy and that Muslims have been their first victims. Grand Mufti Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al-Sheik says extremism and terrorism do not belong to Islam and that the followers of these groups do not follow Islam...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has struck sites in Gaza following rocket fire. The military said early Thursday it was targeting "terror sites" across Gaza. The military says at least five rockets were launched at Israel in the lead-up to the end of a temporary cease-fire...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian Kurdish officials say thousands of members of a religious minority group have fled across the border from Iraq after coming under attack by Islamic extremists. Ekrem Hasso and Juan Mohammad told The Associated Press on Saturday that the Yazidis fled after Kurdish fighters were able to open a safe passage into Syria following clashes with the Islamic State group...