The wife of a prominent Palestinian detainee says he has agreed to end a 55-day hunger strike and in exchange will be released by Israel. Rights groups have warned in recent days that Khader Adnan is near death. Randa Adnan visited her husband in an Israeli hospital over the weekend and...

Israeli naval forces boarded and took over an activist vessel seeking to break the Gaza blockade, and were escorting it to an Israeli port early Monday, the military said, saying that the navy did not use force. "In accordance with international law, the Israeli Navy advised the vessel...

Four people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said. In the Obeidi district of eastern Baghdad a bomb exploded near a crowded market, killing two people. Another bomb went of near a crowded grocery market in the Doura district of southern...

The attacks came one after the other in the space of a few hours. In France, a decapitated body covered in Arabic writing was found after an attacker rammed his car into a gas container, triggering an explosion. In Kuwait, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a packed Shi'ite mosque during...