The United States has no jurisdiction or right to "give" the Golan Heights to Israel, Turkey’s president said late Tuesday. Speaking at an election rally in Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said voters in Israel will go to the polls on April 9. Erdogan said U.S. President Donald Trump...

Hundreds of Palestinians on Tuesday demonstrated in the occupied West Bank to show solidarity with Palestinians languishing in Israeli prisons. Separate demonstrations were held simultaneously in the West Bank cities of Al-Bireh, Tulkarm, Jenin and Salfit. Some protesters held photos of...

The UN's special coordinator for the Middle East peace process expressed concerns Tuesday that violence in Gaza may lead to devastating consequences. "I am concerned that we may, once again, be facing another very dangerous escalation of violence in Gaza, with potentially catastrophic...

Cross-border fighting between Israel and Hamas abated on Tuesday after a day of Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli air strikes, but Israel said it reserved the right to strike again and kept its forces massed at the Gaza frontier. The biggest Israeli-Palestinian escalation in months,...

 Saudi Arabia denounced U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights, a statement released by the Saudi Press Agency said early on Tuesday. “Attempts to impose fait accompli do not change the facts,” the statement said. It said the Golan...

Israelis in the town of Sharon Plain, north of Tel Aviv, prefer a peaceful settlement than a military action against the Gaza Strip, amid tension between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions. According to information compiled by Anadolu Agency correspondents, members of a Jewish...

U.S. President Donald Trump enjoys unprecedented approval ratings in Israel -- much higher than in his home country. His ratings have soared especially after recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in 2018 and formally recognizing Israel-occupied Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced last week that it was time for the U.S. to "fully recognize Israel’s sovereignty" over the Golan Heights. Although the announcement sparked huge condemnation and criticism from across the globe, including the UN Human Rights Council, EU, Turkey and many...

Israeli warplanes carried out a fresh wave of airstrikes across the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, according to military sources. Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said the air raids had targeted Hamas positions across the blockaded enclave. An Anadolu Agency correspondent in Gaza...

 Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington Sunday, looking for an electoral boost from Donald Trump amid expectations the U.S. president will  formally recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Trump broke longstanding international consensus...

Daesh (ISIS) has lost all the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria, but its shadowy leader and self-proclaimed “caliph” is still at large. With a $25 million U.S. bounty on his head, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the world’s most wanted man, responsible for steering his chillingly violent...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey will take the issue of the Golan Heights to the United Nations. In an interview with broadcaster TGRT Haber, Erdogan said U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement on Golan Heights was a “gift” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

A long-range rocket launched from the Gaza Strip struck a house in central Israel on Monday, wounding six people in the first such incident since a 2014 war in the Palestinian enclave, Israeli authorities said. The early morning attack on Mishmeret, an agricultural town north of Tel Aviv,...

The leaders of Romania and Honduras Sunday announced that they will recognize occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital, following the lead of President Donald Trump. Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez delivered their announcements at the...

U.S. President Donald Trump will on Monday sign a decree recognizing Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights while hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Israel’s acting foreign minister said. A senior U.S. official said last week that the Trump...

Israeli aircraft targeted Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip early Sunday after Palestinians there threw explosive devices at the border fence during "riots", the army said. Also Sunday, the health ministry in Gaza announced the death of a Palestinian wounded previously in clashes with...

US President Donald Trump's role in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's electoral campaign gets its star turn this week when the two allies meet in Washington ahead of Israeli polls. The billionaire president has already been featured on giant campaign billboards in Israel shaking hands and...

Forty years ago Egypt and Israel signed the first ever peace treaty between the Jewish state and an Arab nation, upturning Middle East diplomatic and military relations. The March 26, 1979 Egypt?Israel Peace Treaty sealed accords which had been settled the previous year at a groundbreaking...

The Arab coalition in Yemen launched raids on Houthi camps in the capital of Sanaa, including the Al-Dailami air base, Al-Arabiya TV reported Saturday. The U.S. ambassador to Yemen blamed the Iran-aligned Houthi movement Thursday for the holdup to a United Nations-led peace deal in the main...

The world's most wanted man who has so far eluded capture, Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has seen his "caliphate" crumble and its last shred of territory in Syria evaporate on Saturday. After declaring himself caliph in 2014, Baghdadi held sway over seven million people...