At least 44 Palestinians were killed and 220 injured by Israel's attacks on seven UN facilities during last summer’s onslaught in Gaza, a UN board of inquiry found Monday. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attacks saying, "United Nations...

A solid majority of American voters back President Barack Obama's interim nuclear deal with Iran, a poll by Quinnipiac University showed Monday. Some 58 percent of voters back the outline deal, which would curb Iran's atomic program for more than a decade and subject Tehran to tough...

 Iran's hardline judiciary has banned a magazine for encouraging cohabitation, known as "white marriage" in the Islamic Republic where sex outside wedlock is a crime, the Shargh newspaper reported on Monday. Under Iran's sharia-based laws, imposed after the 1979 Islamic revolution,...

A top Palestinian intelligence official provided first details Sunday of the release of two Swedish hostages held in Syria for 17 months, saying the captors drove them to a pre-arranged drop-off point, pushed them out of the car and sped off. The abductors from the militant,...