A group of Gazans were allowed to farm their land near the border with Israel for the first time since 2006 Monday after a deal agreed with Israeli authorities. The deal, brokered by the International Committee of the Red Cross, saw around a dozen farmers set foot on land they had...

 A hospital in Gaza stopped services Monday after it ran out of fuel, the health ministry said, in a further example of a severe electricity shortage facing the blockaded Palestinian enclave. Beit Hanoun hospital in northern Gaza had "suspended medical services because of the...

Police blocked dozens of women from attending a football match Sunday in the Gaza Strip, in what activists said they hoped would have been the first such permission under Hamas' rule. Authorities in the Palestinian enclave run by the Hamas movement told the women they had orders not to...

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani sent condolences Sunday to the president of the United Arab Emirates, whose mother has died, despite the diplomatic rift between the two countries. The emir sent a cable "to HH President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa bin...