Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday he was still ready to extend stalled peace talks with Israel , as long as it met his long-standing demands to free prisoners and halt building on occupied land. Israel suspended the troubled, U.S.-sponsored negotiations with...

A series of explosions killed 28 people and wounded more than 40 at a Shi'ite political organization's rally in Iraq on Friday, police and medical sources said. The militant group Asaib Ahl Haq (League of the Righteous) was presenting its candidates for elections on April 30 at...

The judge presiding over the trial of three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt temporarily ejected all reporters from the court after a chaotic session in which he admitted he could not understand several audio recordings presented as key prosecution evidence. Prosecutors...

The United States said on Wednesday it was let down by a unity pact agreed to between the Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas' Palestine Liberation Organization and added it could make peace efforts difficult. "The timing was...