Four Israelis were wounded, one seriously, when their car came under fire on a road near the West Bank settlement of Shvut Rachel Monday, Israeli security sources said. The injured, all of them men in their 20s, were taken to Israeli hospitals. One of them was in a serious condition, the...

Egypt's top public prosecutor died on Monday of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his Cairo home on Monday in a marked escalation of Islamist militant attacks on the judiciary. Judges and other state officials have increasingly been targeted by radical...

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...