Israel allowed the entry of fuel shipments, including Qatar-funded fuel, into the blockaded Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to a Palestinian official. “Qatar-funded fuel trucks began to enter Gaza today,” the official, who works on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom...

The two houses of the Ethiopian parliament would convene their second special meeting on Thursday to decide on the resignation submitted by President Mulatu Teshome Wirtu. According to local broadcaster FANA, the House of Peoples’ Representatives and the House of the Federation would...

Jordanian authorities have arrested a man suspected in the killing of a former intelligence official this week, according to the country’s public security directorate. A Hibis al-Hanayneh, a former official in the Jordanian intelligence service, was shot dead outside his home in Amman...

Iraq’s firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday rejected a secret vote in parliament on the new cabinet lineup. “The people want to reform the system through an honest government with independent technocrats supervised by the prime minister-designate without pressure from...