A French and Saudi-backed conference on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will take place from June 17 to 20 at UN headquarters in New York, a French diplomatic source told AFP. The conference will be organized by the UN General Assembly under a shared French and Saudi...

US President Donald Trump said Thursday that a deal was close with Iran that would avert a military strike on the country’s contested nuclear sites. “We’re not going to be making any nuclear dust in Iran," Trump said in Qatar, the second stop of his multi-day Gulf tour. “I think...

Gaza’s civil defense agency said Israeli strikes and artillery shelling on Thursday killed at least 82 people in the war-battered Palestinian territory, updating a previous toll. Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said at least 13 people were “recovered from rubble” after a dawn strike in...

Malnutrition rates are rising in Gaza, and hunger could have lasting impacts on “an entire generation,” the World Health Organization’s representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory warned on Tuesday. Rik Peeperkorn said he had seen children in clinics who looked years younger...