Hamas on Tuesday decried calls by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) to hold Palestinian legislative polls “as soon as possible”, saying such calls were “in violation of past [Hamas-Fatah] reconciliation agreements”. “All the Palestinian factions have agreed to hold...

Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday approved a second limited reshuffle in Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz’s cabinet, according to a statement issued by the Jordanian Royal Court.  The reshuffle includes naming new ministers for education and tourism, the two portfolios that had...

Palestinian inmates at the Israel-run Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank have vowed to “escalate” their protest activities following an assault by prison guards. In a press statement released Monday, inmates called on international rights groups “to shoulder their humanitarian,...

A Palestinian attacked Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank late Monday before being shot and "neutralised," the army said, with Palestinian officials reporting the man had died. The Israeli army said the knife-wielding assailant had arrived in a car from Nablus and tried to stab a...