Near-complete official results Friday confirmed a deadlock in Israel's general election this week, putting Benny Gantz's party as the largest but without an obvious path to form a majority coalition. The results from Israel's election committee showed Gantz's centrist Blue and White with 33...

France sounded a downbeat note Thursday on the prospects of direct talks between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and US counterpart Donald Trump on the nuclear crisis, saying the recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities had created a "new context". French President Emmanuel Macron, who is...

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh on Thursday accused the United States of using oil as a “weapon” and said that balance in the oil market would be restored “soon”. “The United States is now using oil as a weapon; oil is not a weapon,” Zangeneh was quoted as saying by the...

Israeli forces rounded up 23 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the military on Thursday. A military statement said the individuals had been arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terror activities", without elaborating about...