Emboldened by a supportive White House, Israel appears to be barreling toward a showdown with the international community over its half-century-old settlement enterprise in the West Bank. With the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court poised to launch a war crimes probe of...

Palestinian condemnation of the U.S. Middle East peace plan came swiftly on Tuesday night, with thousands protesting in Gaza and the militant Islamist group Hamas saying it would confront President Donald Trump’s “aggressive” proposals. Confounding some predictions, the proposals...

President Donald Trump Tuesday unveiled long-awaited details of a US plan for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning it may represent the last chance at statehood for the Palestinians. "Today, Israel takes a big step towards peace," Trump told a White House news conference,...

The United Nations raised "serious concerns" Tuesday about the trials of hundreds of alleged Daesh (ISIS) members in Iraq, some of whom merely prepared meals, offered medical services or even acted as human shields for the militant group. Iraq has processed thousands of cases under its...