(Al Jazeera)- Israel has announced it will be holding its fire in parts of Gaza for seven hours on Monday, amid world outrage over a deadly  strike on a UN school entrance in the Palestinian territory. The limited and unilateral truce came after world powers fiercely...

(Reporting by Abdullah Raja; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Alwasl)- Palestine’s representative in the United Nation, reveals that Western countries, the great nations in particular have put an essential rule prevents judging Israel in the...

BAGHDAD, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Islamic State Sunni insurgents have captured the northern Iraqi town of Zumar and a nearby oil field after a battle with Kurdish forces who had control of the area, witnesses said on Sunday. Islamic State, which staged a lightning advance through...

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A United Nations school sheltering displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip was hit Sunday by what a U.N. official said appeared to be an Israeli airstrike, as the military struck the Hamas-ruled territory despite signaling a possible scaling back of its...