Breaking:

  • Death toll from bombings in southern Iraq rises to 32 (Reuters)
  • Syrian army confirms Russian announcement of 'regime of calm' around Damascus for 24 hours (Reuters)
  • Iraqi officials: Double car bombings in southern Iraq kill at least 18, wound up to 40 others (AP)
  • Turkish army: 2 ISIS fighters killed in U.S.-led coalition drone attack in northern Syria (Reuters)
  • At least eight killed, 16 wounded in two car bombs in Iraq, police says (Reuters)
  • Turkish police fire tear gas as clashes break out during May Day protest in Istanbul (Reuters)
  • Iran's oil exports to South Korea quadruple to 400,000 barrels a day after sanctions lift (Reuters)
  • Police officer killed, 13 people wounded in car bomb in Turkey's Gaziantep, official says (Reuters)
  • Three Turkish soldiers killed, 14 wounded in PKK attack in southeast, army says (Reuters)
  • Israeli ambassador to U.K.: Elements of left 'in denial' about 'disease' of anti-Semitism (Haaretz)
  • Hungarian police find body of missing Israeli hiker, Israeli foreign ministry reports (Haaretz)
  • U.S. says working on initiative to de-escalate Syria fighting, with focus on Aleppo (Reuters)
  • U.S. State Department: Assad escalating Syria conflict by targeting innocent civilians (Reuters)
  • Iraqi police fire tear gas as thousands of protests burst into Green Zone, storm Parliament (AP)
  • U.S., allies carry out 24 airstrikes on ISIS targets in Iraq, Syria (Reuters)

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