Israel allowed the entry of fuel shipments, including Qatar-funded fuel, into the blockaded Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to a Palestinian official. “Qatar-funded fuel trucks began to enter Gaza today,” the official, who works on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing,...

Jordanian authorities have arrested a man suspected in the killing of a former intelligence official this week, according to the country’s public security directorate. A Hibis al-Hanayneh, a former official in the Jordanian intelligence service, was shot dead outside his home in Amman...

Iraq’s firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday rejected a secret vote in parliament on the new cabinet lineup. “The people want to reform the system through an honest government with independent technocrats supervised by the prime minister-designate without pressure from...

Israeli forces rounded up 16 Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military on Wednesday. The individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities”, the army said in a statement, without elaborating on the...

At least one Palestinian seriously injured in the head on Tuesday by Israeli army gunfire near the buffer zone between Gaza and Israel, according to the Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry. “A [Palestinian] citizen has been seriously injured in the head by occupation gunfire on the...

At least six people were killed and dozens injured in a car-bomb attack in northern Iraq on Tuesday, according to a local police officer. A car parked on a roadside exploded at a marketplace in al-Qayyarah, south of Mosul, Police Lieutenant Abdel-Qadir al-Jabouri told Anadolu Agency....

At least 305 irregular migrants were held across Turkey, security sources said Tuesday. In northwestern province of Edirne’s Meric and Uzunkopru districts , Turkish gendarmerie units rounded up 155 irregular migrants near the Bulgarian border, said the sources, who spoke on condition of...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has sent a message to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, according to the foreign ministry on Tuesday.  In a statement, the ministry said the message was delivered by Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri during his meeting with the Saudi monarch in...

The Israeli army Monday accused Hezbollah of setting up a new observation point in south Lebanon near the border under the guise of an environmental NGO. A senior military officer charged that the position, near the Shiite village of Aadaysit and the Israeli kibbutz of Misgav Am, was a...

A militant group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of 12 Iranian security personnel near the border with Pakistan, Iran's semi-official news agency ISNA reported Monday. "The terrorist group Jaish al-Adl [Army of Justice] has posted two photos... claiming that those in it are...

On one of the world's most polluted coastlines, 30 young Palestinians dive head first into the sea off the Gaza Strip, their minds filled with dreams of Olympic glory. Aged between 11 and 16, they make up a rare swimming club in the Palestinian enclave, and perhaps its only mixed-sex one....

Israel will negotiate with Jordan an extension of a 25-year Israeli lease of border land under a 1994 peace treaty, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday. Netanyahu, in public remarks, said Jordan wants to implement its option to end the lease, and Israel "will enter negotiations...

Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel will visit the blockaded Gaza Strip soon, Palestinian group Hamas said Sunday. “The visit of Major General Kamel… will take place in the near future,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told Anadolu Agency. According to the spokesman, Kamel had been...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday ordered the reopening of the Kerem Shalom and Erez crossings with the Gaza Strip. “The decision comes after a decrease in the violent events in Gaza over the weekend and efforts Hamas made to restrain demonstrators,” Lieberman said in...

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he has decided to postpone the planned demolition of a West Bank hamlet to allow time for a negotiated solution with its residents, in a move that appeared aimed at staving off the fierce international condemnation such a demolition...

The United Nations' Mideast peace envoy urged Israel and the Palestinians to exercise restraint Friday ahead of protests organized by Hamas on the Gaza Strip's border fence. Thousands of Palestinian protesters were expected to mass along Israel's border with Gaza for another weekly...

The U.S. on Thursday changed the status of its consulate in Jerusalem, placing it under the authority of Washington's embassy in Jerusalem. The consulate for years served as the de facto embassy to the Palestinians, representing the U.S. in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as...

An Egyptian security delegation has managed to reach a de-escalation deal between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, according to a Palestinian source. “The Egyptian mediation succeeded in halting the escalation that broke out early today in Gaza,” the source told...

A U.S. student barred from Israel over past support for a pro-Palestinian boycott campaign appeared before the Jewish state's top court Wednesday in a final appeal against the state's decision. Lara Alqasem, 22, landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Oct. 2, for master's degree studies at...

Iran called new US sanctions against its paramilitary Basij group an act of "blind vindictiveness" on Wednesday. "America's new sanctions are a clear insult to international and legal mechanisms and a result of the American government's blind vindictiveness against the Iranian nation,"...