The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak has climbed to 170, the National Health Commission said Thursday. Some 7,711 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the coronavirus, also known as 2019-nCoV, have been reported in China. It was reported that 38 people have died...

Kuwait "highly appreciates" U.S. efforts to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, the foreign ministry said Wednesday, a day after U.S President Donald Trump announced a new peace plan. The statement, cited by the state news agency, reiterated Kuwait's commitment to an independent Palestinian...

The White House has issued a letter to former national security adviser John Bolton, seeking to block the publication of his upcoming book, CNN reported Wednesday citing sources familiar with the matter. Axios news outlet also reported that the White House had issued the letter. The reports...

Abu Dis, the town earmarked for the Palestinian capital in U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, lies a short distance to the east of Jerusalem’s walled Old City. A relatively featureless urban sprawl on the old road to Jericho, it has little of the religious or cultural...