Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man during Friday protests at the Gaza-Israel border, the health ministry in Gaza said in a statement. It named the dead man as Ghazi Abu Mustafee, 43, and said he was shot in the head near the border fence, east of Khan Younis in the...

The Israeli army has imposed a tight siege on the Palestinian village of Kubar near the West Bank city of Ramallah, eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency on Friday. According to witnesses, Israeli forces stormed the village and raided the home of Mohamed Yousef, a local resident who was shot...

A Palestinian teenage girl, who was shot by Israeli soldiers during anti-occupation rallies on Gaza Strip, will be able to walk again, her doctor said. Meryem Abu-Matar, 16, who lives in Gaza’s Rafah city, was brought to Istanbul for medical treatment. Since March, Abu-Matar has been...

For more than three years after graduation, Karar Alaa Abdel-Wahid tried to get a stable job in the Iraqi government and in the private sector - to no avail. He once was offered a job with the Oil Ministry in his energy-rich hometown of Basra, but it came with a hefty price: he would...