The Arab countries stick to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Abul-Gheit said early Sunday. “If the Arabs decided to freeze or withdraw the peace initiative, they would be opening fire on themselves,”...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not meet U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during Pence’s visit to the region this month in a snub over the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Palestinian foreign minister said on Saturday. Violence erupted for a third day in...

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said on Saturday that Arab nations should consider imposing economic sanctions against the United States to prevent it moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. “Pre-emptive measures (must be) taken against the decision ... beginning with...

 Iraqi forces said they killed 10 members of Daesh (ISIS) in a tunnel near the city of Kirkuk on Saturday, the same day that the prime minister declared the war on Daesh over. "Brigade 16 of the Hashed al-Shaabi found a tunnel on the outskirts of Rashad and killed 10 [Daesh]...