The U.S. on Tuesday said it was suspending a total of $65 million in aid to Palestine “for future consideration.” “It's not being canceled. It's just being held for future consideration,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a press briefing. Nauert added that $60...

 Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami Tuesday called on authorities to listen to popular demands after a wave of deadly unrest over economic woes. Authorities "should try to identify people's problems and hardships" instead of "humiliating" them, the reformist said in a...

The Israeli military says it has reopened a key border crossing with the Gaza Strip after destroying a tunnel built under it by the Hamas Movement. Tuesday's opening restores Gaza's main point of entry of humanitarian aid. Israel temporarily closed the Kerem Shalom border...

  Lebanese authorities have banned Steven Spielberg's latest film, political thriller "The Post", and Australian drama "Jungle" to comply with a boycott of Israel, an official told AFP Monday. "Screening of the film 'The Post' has been banned," said the official from Lebanon's...

Egypt’s president Monday sought to defuse tensions with  Ethiopia  and Sudan, reassuring them that his country was not meddling in their internal affairs or planning to go to war against them. Egypt has expressed mounting alarm over a soon-to-be-completed upstream dam in...

Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani held talks in Turkey Monday with his chief ally President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as tensions again surged between the emirate and its regional foes. The talks, announced only hours in advance, got under way at Erdogan's presidential palace in the...

BERLIN: The German government says it will seek more detail on what the U.S. wants regarding the nuclear deal with Iran after President Donald Trump demanded that European allies fix what he called "terrible flaws." Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, stressed Monday...

The Trump administration is preparing to withhold tens of millions of dollars from the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, cutting the year's first contribution by more than half or perhaps entirely, and making additional donations contingent on major changes to the organization, according to...

A total of 25 people were killed in the recent unrest that hit several towns and cities across Iran, the judiciary said Sunday, with 465 still under arrest. "Twenty-five people, ordinary citizens and our own forces, were killed during the recent troubles," said judiciary spokesman...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that Israel has "ended" the landmark Oslo peace accords of the 1990s with its actions. "I am saying that Oslo, there is no Oslo," he said at the start of a meeting of Palestinian leaders called to discuss US President Donald Trump's...

Palestine's minister of awqaf and religious affairs said Sunday that Israel had committed more than 1,000 violations against mosques and churches in 2017. Speaking at the government press center in Ramallah, Yousef Adeis said Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in particular...

Iran said on Saturday it would retaliate against new sanctions imposed by the United States after President Donald Trump set an ultimatum to fix “disastrous flaws” in a deal curbing Tehran’s nuclear program. Trump said on Friday he would waive nuclear sanctions on Iran for the last...

The Hamas Movement said Saturday it would not participate in a meeting of Palestinian leaders to debate responses to the controversial U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The decision not to take part in the meeting to begin late Sunday is a further setback to...

Iran on Saturday rejected any modification of its nuclear deal with world powers after U.S. President Donald Trump demanded tough new measures to keep the agreement alive. Iran "will not accept any amendments in this agreement, be it now or in the future, and it will not allow any other...

The United States imposed sanctions on 14 individuals and entities on Friday for human rights abuses in Iran and supporting Iranian weapons programs, including the head of Iran’s judiciary, Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani. The US Treasury Department said in a statement that Larijani, a close...

Egypt will impose a curfew on parts of the North Sinai region starting on Saturday after the country extended its state of emergency, the official gazette said. The curfew includes areas at the border town of Rafah near Gaza from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. and around the town of El-Arish from 1...

The European Union voiced concern Friday over the Israeli detention of two Palestinian minors, one of whom who was arrested after a video of her confronting Israeli soldiers went viral. The Jerusalem and Ramallah EU missions expressed "deep concern regarding the circumstances of the...

U.S. President Donald Trump was set Friday to decide whether to jeopardize the 2015 Iran nuclear deal by re-imposing American sanctions on an agreement European leaders say is working just fine. Washington agreed to sanctions relief under the terms of the landmark agreement reached...

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani says his country is ready to discuss its outstanding differences with Egypt after more than four years of strained relations. The foreign minister also pointed to “attempts” -- he did not say by whom -- to disrupt...

Habib al-Adly, former President Hosni Mubarak’s last interior minister, was reportedly acquitted of corruption charges on Thursday. According to judicial sources, al-Adly, who served as interior minister from 1997 to 2011, is now set to be released -- along with 10 others -- after being...