Turkey and Egypt will soon announce the reappointment of ambassadors, their foreign ministers said in Ankara Thursday, as the two regional powers put years of tensions behind them and mend frayed ties. Speaking to reporters in the Turkish capital, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and...

Thousands of Israelis led by at least seven Cabinet ministers marched Monday to an evacuated West Bank settlement, in a defiant signal that Israel’s most right-wing government in history is determined to accelerate settlement building on occupied lands despite international opposition. The...

 Israeli warplanes and artillery struck targets in Syria following rare rocket fire from the northeastern neighbor, as Jewish-Muslim tensions reached a peak Sunday at a volatile Jerusalem shrine with simultaneous religious rituals. Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at the city's...

Staffers of the UN refugee agency UNRWA staged a general strike in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to protest the agency’s lack of response to demands for recruitment of new employees. “All UNRWA facilities went on a general strike,” Azmi Radwan, head of the labor sector in the UNRWA’s Arab...