The Israeli army says it has opened fire on a car that broke through a West Bank checkpoint, killing one of the Palestinian passengers. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the man as Qasim Abbasi, 17. His cousin, Mohammed Abbasi, told The Associated Press that he and Qasim were...

Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah on Wednesday announced that talks between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to find a solution to the Gulf crisis are ongoing. During a news conference he held with his Dutch counterpart Steve Block in...

The World Food Program announced Wednesday cuts in food aid affecting about 190,000 impoverished Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank – half of all its recipients there, citing a severe funding shortfall. The U.N. agency said it would, as of Jan. 1, suspend food assistance to 27,000...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A seven-month-old refugee girl died of severe cold and due to lack of heating materials in northern Syria, activists said Wednesday. Yassin al-Hussein, father of Maryam, said his baby girl died of cold and malnutrition in the al-Naser camp at the Turkish border....