Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Friday threatened to escalate against Gaza-based Palestinian resistance group Hamas now that last month’s Jewish holidays have ended. "The holiday month has gone exactly as we planned -- without any confrontations or heavy losses among the...

Israel’s Jerusalem municipality has announced plans to remove the UN’s relief agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli press has reported.  According to Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has accused the agency of...

One person was killed and three others injured on Thursday when an explosion tore through a fuel depot north of capital Cairo, according to local media reports. Flagship state daily Al-Ahram reported that a fire broke out after a fuel tank exploded at an oil-pumping warehouse in the...

Jordan on Thursday received over $1 billion in financial aid from three key Gulf backers as part of a broader package to help ease an economic crisis, a government source said. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait in June offered a $2.5-billion (2.2 billion euro) lifeline...