US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is expected to tackle the Gulf crisis and push for progress toward ending the spat during a visit to Qatar Wednesday. The official Qatar News Agency reported that Kushner met with the country's ruler Emir Sheikh Tamim...

Afghan government and Taliban representatives said on Wednesday they had reached a preliminary deal to press on with peace talks, their first written agreement in 19 years of war. The agreement lays out the way forward for further discussion but is considered a breakthrough because it will...

US President-elect Joe Biden will insist Iran agrees to new demands if it wants the US to return to a nuclear deal and lift sanctions, The New York Times said Wednesday. The Times said the Biden administration would seek to extend the duration of "restrictions on Iran's production of...

 Israel handed over a backlog of billions of shekels in tax money to the Palestinian Authority Wednesday, both sides said, in another sign of warming ties between the sides after the US presidential election victory of Joe Biden. The taxes, managed by Israel under interim peace accords...