The Israeli army killed a Palestinian woman in a northern town of the occupied West Bank on Thursday for allegedly carrying out a stabbing attack. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the woman as Eman Ziyad Odeh, 26, and said she was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Huwara town south...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the second-such capture by Tehran in under a week amid heightened tensions over its nuclear program. The taking of the oil...

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's warring generals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, potentially in Saudi Arabia, the top U.N. official in the country said on Monday, even as the two sides clashed in the capital of Khartoum despite another three-day extension of a fragile cease-fire....

A senior police officer was killed by unidentified assailants in southeastern Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province on Sunday, in the latest incident of targeted attacks on law enforcement officials in the restive province. Colonel Alireza Shahraki, who headed the police's criminal...