TRCB News:International

Turkish police on Thursday detained around 20 people in connection to an alleged plot to topple the Islamist-rooted government, and the detainees included retired and active military officers, state media said. The operation was part of an

The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on Thursday against two firms in Gaza -- Islamic National Bank and al-Aqsa Television -- for their ties to the ruling Hamas movement. The Treasury said the sanctions prohibit Americans from transactions with the

The Middle East quartet on Thursday is expected to press Israel to show its commitment to peace talks with the Palestinians by halting the construction of settlements in east Jerusalem, in a two day meeting to be held in Moscow. U.S. Secretary of

In the face of a diplomatic spat with Israel, the White House is weighing proposing a U.S. plan to form the basis of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, U.S. media reported on Thursday. U.S. officials are questioning the commitment of

Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians have an "enormous" effect where U.S. military forces operate in the Muslim world and are closely monitored, the U.S. general who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan said on Tuesday. The comments by

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said Nigeria should be partitioned between the Christian and Muslim communities to solve its sectarian violence problem, the JANA news agency reported on Tuesday. He proposed that it should follow the partition model

Two Muslim men were charged in Ireland Monday after a probe into an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who drew indecent cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, a report said. Ali Charaf Damache, 44 and from Algeria, appeared in court

Republican lawmakers came out swinging Monday against President Barack Obama's hard line toward Israel over its controversial plans to expand a settlement in disputed East Jerusalem. The number three Republican in the House of

Indonesia's largest Islamic organization on Monday condemned protests by hard-line groups against U.S. President Barack Obama's planned visit to the mainly Muslim country. Nahdlatul Ulama deputy chairman Maskuri Abdillah said the visit

Israeli media on Monday said the U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project, as a major pro-Israel U.S. lobby group warned early Monday that recent U.S. administration remarks about bilateral ties with Israel were "of