Top US diplomat Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Wednesday to counter Iranian "aggression" as the two met in Jerusalem just weeks ahead of Israel's elections. Netanyahu said US President Donald Trump's pressure on Iran was already having an effect, referring...

Thousands of tonnes of food aid near Yemen's flashpoint port city of Hodeida is infested with insects and must be fumigated to feed millions of people, the UN said Wednesday. Last month, a team from the UN's World Food Programme visited the Red Sea Mills warehouse for the first time since...

Top US diplomat Mike Pompeo sought Wednesday to bolster a united front against Iran during a Middle East tour that will include talks with key ally Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections. The US secretary of state kicked off his regional tour in Kuwait where he met...

Gaza has seen regular protests along the Israeli border for the past year, but new demonstrations in recent days have been much less to the liking of the strip's rulers Hamas. Over the course of several days beginning last week, hundreds of Palestinians gathered in multiple locations in...

Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in clashes near a flashpoint religious site in the occupied West Bank overnight Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said. The health ministry said Raid Hamdan, 21, and Zaid Nouri, 20, died after being shot late Tuesday by Israeli troops...

The United Nations will present a new plan for the pullback of forces from Yemen's flashpoint city of Hodeida following talks with the government and Huthi rebels, a UN envoy said Tuesday. The redeployment of forces was agreed in December under a ceasefire deal reached in Sweden that...

Hungary opened a new trade office in west Jerusalem on Tuesday, fulfilling a February pledge by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Israel to do so in the disputed city. The opening stops short of moving Hungary's Israel embassy to Jerusalem as US President Donald Trump has done, breaking with...

Palestinian group Hamas on Tuesday expressed solidarity with the Turkish people and leadership in the face of “Israeli provocations". “We stand by Turkey’s leadership and its people against the Israeli provocations,” Hamas’ spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday....

 A senior U.S. arms control official said Tuesday that Iran's missile program is destabilizing the Middle East and raising the risk of a "regional arms race" through the provision of such weapons to armed groups in Lebanon and Yemen. U.S. President Donald Trump said when he quit a...

Scores of Palestinians staged a rally in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh on Tuesday in support of detainees in Israeli prisons.  The protest was organized outside the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the city.  Addressing the rally, Kaddura Faris, the...

A Turkish aid group delivered 1,000 tankers of water to families in war-torn Yemen, the charity said on Tuesday. The Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said in a statement that Yemenis in the region have difficulty in finding clean water due to drought and the civil war....

A century after Egypt's March 1919 revolution, the prominent Wafd party credited with leading popular demands to end the British occupation, has now been largely sidelined on the country's political scene, analysts say. A one-time liberal opposition force with a mass following, Wafd is...

The assault on worshippers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem last week by Israeli forces is yet another sobering reminder of ills afforded by Washington's unwavering support for Israel, a Muslim-American advocacy group said Monday. Around 16 Palestinians were injured, according to...

Israeli forces on Monday hunted a Palestinian who they said killed two people in the occupied West Bank, an attack that put security back at the forefront of the country's electoral campaign. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose popularity rests largely on his reputation as a security...

The Israeli Security Forces violated international human rights and humanitarian law in Palestine's occupied Gaza strip, the UN commission said on Monday. "Some of those violations may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity, and must be immediately investigated by Israel," Betty...

The death of a Kurdish activist on hunger strike in a Turkish prison sparked clashes between supporters and police near his grave on Monday as his lawyers and Kurdish party officials said he had committed suicide. Zulkuf Gezen, who died late Sunday, was one of scores of detainees on hunger...

Iran's president on Monday urged Iranians to put a curse on the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia, reiterating his long-standing charge that the U.S. and its allies are responsible for the country's ailing economy. President Hassan Rouhani's remarks were meant to deflect criticism...

An Israeli court on Sunday ordered the temporary closure of a side building at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site that has been the source of tensions in recent weeks. The Jerusalem magistrates court said the building known as the Golden Gate at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to...

Two Palestinian groups said Sunday a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank that killed an Israeli settler was a "response" to Israeli assaults against the Palestinians. In a statement, Palestinian group Hamas described the attack as "heroic", saying it came to respond to Israeli...

Palestinian rights groups say Hamas briefly detained four of their researchers as it dispersed protests in Gaza against recent tax hikes. Hundreds of Gazans gathered for a third day Saturday to protest the tax hikes, which have made life even harder in the territory. Gaza has been under an...