The U.S. is crafting a surrender document, not a peace plan, and the Palestinians will not accept it regardless of how much money is offered, Palestine's foreign minister said Thursday. Riyad al-Maliki was addressing a meeting at the UN's New York headquarters at which the U.S.'s Middle...

Loudspeakers blared nationalist Arabic music across hillsides in northern Israel on Thursday as children ran across a field waving Palestinian flags. The scene was a rally for members of Israel’s 21 percent Arab minority. The Israeli term for them is Israeli-Arabs, but many now reject...

European powers denounced Iran’s threat to resume nuclear work on Thursday but vowed to save a landmark deal with Tehran despite US pressure. Iran said it would defy some limits it had accepted under the 2015 agreement, and threatened to go further if Europe, China and Russia fail to...

Scores of Jewish settlers on Thursday forced their way into Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to mark Israel’s “Independence Day”, according to a Palestinian official.  “Since Thursday morning, over 130 Jewish extremists have entered the compound to mark the 71st...